Question follow-through · 84453
Social Rented Housing: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will assess the potential merits of barring non-UK nationals from (a) being the lead tenant for social housing (b) living in social housing.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Subscriptions · 2 Dec 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will assess the potential merits of barring non-UK nationals from (a) being the lead tenant for social housing (b) living in social housing.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 19776 on 20 December 2024.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Public Spaces Protection Orders: Harrow
23 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department holds information on the amount spent by Harrow Council on (a) No spitting signage and (b) related Public Space Protection Order enforcement campaigns sinc
Refugees: Social Rented Housing
28 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2025 to Question 83627 on Refugees: Social Rented Housing, how many lead tenants there are in (a) social and (b) rented housing by the nation
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Social Media
29 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on social media advertising by (a) influencer and (b) organisation in each of the last five financial years.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Mental Health
25 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many staff in their Department have been on mental health leave for six months or more; and for what reason.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Subscriptions
2 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for the total spend on (i) LinkedIn membership fees (ii) other subscriptions by his Department in the last financial year.
Local Government Finance: Coastal Areas
10 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether additional support will be given to coastal councils like Great Yarmouth facing above-average costs for waste and public space maintenance.
Electoral Register: Foreign Nationals
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department holds aggregated data on the number of foreign nationals registered to vote in UK local elections, broken down by EU citizens, Irish citizens, and qualifyi
Electoral Register: Nationality
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy for either (a) his Department or (b) the Electoral Commission to centrally collect nationality data for registered electors.
Absent Voting: Foreign Nationals
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government monitors the number of postal or proxy votes issued to non-UK nationals eligible to vote in local elections.
Electoral Register: Foreign Nationals
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the absence of nationality-grouped oversight forms part of the Government’s election integrity risk assessments, and if so, what assessment has been made of the risks ass
Absent Voting: Foreign Nationals
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has conducted any assessment of risks posed by foreign-state or foreign-network mobilisation of postal-voting blocks among overseas nationals eligible to
Electoral Register: Nationality
11 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether nationality data held by EROs is used in any national-security screening or analysis relating to electoral interference risk.