Question follow-through · 39723
Rents
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that rental prices remain affordable; and whether she has considered mechanisms to stabilise rents.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 27 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that rental prices remain affordable; and whether she has considered mechanisms to stabilise rents.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2025
Answer published
Boosting the supply of homes of all tenures must be at the heart of any strategy to improve housing affordability which is why the government’s Plan for Change includes a hugely ambitious milestone of building 1.5 million safe and decent homes in England ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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