Question follow-through · 49226
Local Housing Allowance: Shared Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many adults living in temporary accommodation receive the Shared Accommodation Rate of Local Housing Allowance.
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
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many adults living in temporary accommodation receive the Shared Accommodation Rate of Local Housing Allowance.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The shared accommodation rate does not apply in temporary accommodation.Temporary Accommodation is defined as housing that a claimant has been placed in by a local authority or housing association to meet the local authority’s statutory homelessness duty ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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