Question follow-through · 129398
Housing Benefit: Wales
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason supported living provided by local authorities in Wales is not recognised as exempt accommodation for the purposes of housing benefit.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 27 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Housing Benefit: Supported Housing · 23 Apr 2026
- Local Housing Allowance: Uprating · 13 Jul 2026
- Local Housing Allowance: Uprating · 13 Jul 2026
- Written question 30295 · 15 Sept 2026
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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
22 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason supported living provided by local authorities in Wales is not recognised as exempt accommodation for the purposes of housing benefit.
27 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2026
Answer published
Housing Benefit regulations contain a landlord definition used to determine whether supported housing and supported living qualifies as specified accommodation. Exempt accommodation is one of four categories of specified accommodation. Exempt accommodatio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Job Creation: Young People
9 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the 100,000 jobs announced on 8 September 2026 in the joint statement with the British Retail Consortium are expected to be created in Wales.
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Written question 30295
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Written question 30296
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Written question 30297
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has he made of the potential impact of the benefit cap on levels of poverty in Wales.