Question follow-through · 48964
Veterans: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that armed forces veterans are given priority status on local authority housing registers.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that armed forces veterans are given priority status on local authority housing registers.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
Local authorities are responsible for designing and managing their own housing allocations policies to meet local need within the framework of legislation under which certain categories of people must be given priority.By law, local authorities must give ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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