Question follow-through · 89889
Community Assets: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a rural community ownership fund.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a rural community ownership fund.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department commissioned an evaluation of the Community Ownership Fund in May 2023 to measure the social and economic impacts of different kinds of asset ownership, which will conclude in March 2026. Interim findings will be published in the coming mon...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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