Question follow-through · 76447
Social Rented Housing: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are implementing the changes introduced in November 2024 to exempt all veterans from local connection require
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are implementing the changes introduced in November 2024 to exempt all veterans from local connection require
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Allocation of Housing (Qualification Criteria for Armed Forces) (England) (Amendment) Regulations, which came into force in December 2024, mean that local authorities are no longer allowed to apply local connection tests to veterans of the Regular Arm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Council Tax: Foster Care
1 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of exempting foster carers from Council Tax in whole or in part.
Aerials: Planning Permission
16 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answers of 15 December 2025 to Questions 98222, 98223, 98224, and 98225, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the accuracy of ICNIRP self-certification
Planning
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish a definition of a significant adverse impact in the context of the National Planning Policy Framework.