Question follow-through · 51750
Furniture Poverty
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department monitors levels of furniture poverty.
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
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department monitors levels of furniture poverty.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
My Department engages actively with a range of stakeholders on issues facing residents and has engaged with groups such as End Furniture Poverty to understand their research on this issue.People in need may be able to get support from their local authorit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Social Rented Housing: Furniture Poverty
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