Question follow-through · 48362
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the decision to freeze Local Housing Allowance rates until 2026.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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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
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will review the decision to freeze Local Housing Allowance rates until 2026.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates are reviewed annually, usually at an Autumn fiscal event. At last year’s Autumn Budget, the decision to maintain LHA at current levels for 2025/26 was taken after a range of factors were considered, including rental dat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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