Question follow-through · 907208
Social Rented Housing: Furniture
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring at least 10% of social housing stock to be let as furnished.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2026
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 requiring at least 10% of social housing stock to be let as furnished.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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12 Jan 2026
Answer published
From 2 July to 12 September last year, we consulted on a reformed and modernised Decent Homes Standard for social and privately rented homes.As part of that consultation, we sought views on how guidance might be used to encourage and support landlords to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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