Question follow-through · 37012
Social Rented Housing: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish a timeframe for updating the Decent Homes Standard.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish a timeframe for updating the Decent Homes Standard.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
The government will consult this year on a reformed Decent Homes Standard for the social and private rented sectors. The Deputy Prime Minister is part of the ministerial Child Poverty Taskforce, which is aiming to publish a Child Poverty Strategy in Sprin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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