Question follow-through · 115567
Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what number and proportion of those claiming a) housing benefit and b) the UC housing element live in the social rented sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Mar 2026 · 6 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
24 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what number and proportion of those claiming a) housing benefit and b) the UC housing element live in the social rented sector.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Mar 2026
Answer published
Monthly statistics for the number of households on Housing Benefit (HB) and the number of Households on Universal Credit (UC) are published quarterly on Stat-Xplore, with data currently available to November 2025. The statistics are available by Tenure Ty...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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