Question follow-through · 8136
Social Rented Housing: Furniture
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department will take steps promote furnished tenancy schemes and to include the Best Practice Guide for Furniture Provision within the Decent Homes Standard.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department will take steps promote furnished tenancy schemes and to include the Best Practice Guide for Furniture Provision within the Decent Homes Standard.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2026
Answer published
The government has no current plans to amend the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 to require the Regulator of Social Housing to set new standards in respect of furniture provision. People living without essential furniture can access support through thei...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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