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Legal Aid Scheme: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the remit of legal aid to enable eligible individuals to receive advice on (a) social housing allocations and (b) disputes over the allocation o

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
26 Mar 2025
Answer
1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the remit of legal aid to enable eligible individuals to receive advice on (a) social housing allocations and (b) disputes over the allocation o

  2. 26 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Legal aid is available for possession, evictions, homelessness, and disrepair claims (when there is a serious risk of illness or injury) subject to a financial means test and a merits test. This includes when someone is homeless, or at risk of homelessnes...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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