Question follow-through · 41021
Social Rented Housing: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of families on waiting lists for social housing.
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
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number of families on waiting lists for social housing.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
The number of households on social housing registers (waiting lists) in England and for each local authority in England is available each year since 1987 in live table 600 on gov.uk here. My Department only collects data on housing registers for local aut...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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