Question follow-through · 86698
Local Housing Allowance: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the freeze on local housing allowance on levels of homelessness in Wales.
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
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 5 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
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the freeze on local housing allowance on levels of homelessness in Wales.
4 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
The causes of homelessness are multi-faceted and often complex; they interact dynamically making it very difficult to isolate the relative importance of individual factors. Responsibility for housing and homelessness is devolved to the Welsh Government, w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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