Question follow-through · 107503
Local Housing Allowance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households affected by the Local Housing Allowance freeze since its introduction.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households affected by the Local Housing Allowance freeze since its introduction.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2026
Answer published
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) determines the maximum housing support for tenants in the private rented sector. Households in similar circumstances living in the same area are entitled to the same maximum rent allowance, regardless of the contractual rent ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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