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Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changing the rules which prevent families from bidding for social houses that have too few bedrooms on waiting times for so

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
23 Jan 2026
Target answer date
28 Jan 2026
Answer
28 Jan 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changing the rules which prevent families from bidding for social houses that have too few bedrooms on waiting times for so

  2. 28 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The government expects registered providers of social housing to develop solutions that make best use of their stock.When framing the rules which determine the size of property to allocate to different households and in different circumstances, local hous...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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