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Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to legally redefine the term affordable housing to be linked to social rent.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
21 May 2025
Target answer date
2 Jun 2025
Answer
6 Jun 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to legally redefine the term affordable housing to be linked to social rent.

  2. 2 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    To reflect this government’s priorities, the revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 places greater emphasis on the delivery of Social Rent homes and includes a separate definition of Social Rent so that it is not referred...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Planning: Rural Areas

2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the extent to which the revised National Planning Policy Framework protects rural areas from unplanned developments in unsuitable locations.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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