Question follow-through · 2516
Public Lavatories
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a duty on local authorities to provide a minimum level of provision of free access to public toilets in (a) tow
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 27 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a duty on local authorities to provide a minimum level of provision of free access to public toilets in (a) tow
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2026
Answer published
In keeping with our commitment to funding simplification, the Government has no current plans to introduce a statutory duty or ringfenced funding relating to public toilet provision. Local authorities best understand local needs and are therefore best pla...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Devolution
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Council Housing
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Insulation: Housing
15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to speed up the remediation of non-cladding defects in residential buildings, including social housing stock.
High Rise Flats: Brighton and Hove
15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to question UIN 88528, answered in November 2025, on High Rise Flats: Fires, if he will confirm whether Brighton and Hove City Council responded to the survey in 2023 ab
Climate Change: Statistics
8 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the data included in the climate change mitigation metric in the Local Outcomes Framework; what plans he has to update this metric;
Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance
16 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of increased funding support needed for local authorities to speed up the completion of non-cladding remediation works in social housing.