Question follow-through · 99223
Local Housing Allowance: Rents
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the local housing allowance was last updated; and what estimate he has made of the difference between average rents at the time of the last update compared with the most recent available data.
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
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the local housing allowance was last updated; and what estimate he has made of the difference between average rents at the time of the last update compared with the most recent available data.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates were last updated in April 2024. The Office for National Statistics ‘Price Index of Private Rents’ (PIPR) provides monthly estimates for average rents in the whole private rental sector. PIPR data is available on the ON...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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