Question follow-through · 35395
Temporary Accommodation: Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of uprating temporary accommodation subsidy rates on local authorities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 10 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of uprating temporary accommodation subsidy rates on local authorities.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Mar 2025
Answer published
We continue to keep the rates used for Housing Benefit subsidy under review and are working closely with MHCLG and the Inter-Ministerial Group on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping to explore the impacts of subsidy rates on local authorities. The Government ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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