Question follow-through · 87044
Private Rented Housing: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many applications for a selective licensing designation were approved between 4 July 2024 and 23 December 2024.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 7 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many applications for a selective licensing designation were approved between 4 July 2024 and 23 December 2024.
4 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Nov 2025
Answer published
My Department approved applications for Selective Licensing submitted by Waltham Forest and Blackpool in November 2024. Between July 2024 and the introduction of the 2024 General Approval on 23 December 2024, Burnley, Barking and Dagenham, and Lambeth sub...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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