Question follow-through · 40985
Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to amend the Human Rights Act 1998 to provide a legal right to access adequate housing.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to amend the Human Rights Act 1998 to provide a legal right to access adequate housing.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Human Rights Act (HRA) is an important part of our constitutional arrangements and fundamental to human rights protections in the UK. The Government has no plans to amend the rights protected by the HRA, which are drawn from those in the European Conv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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