Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 75856

Local Housing Allowance

Tabled: 8 September 2025

Answered: 16 September 2025

Question

Mr Will Forster

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of permanently linking local housing allowance rates to the bottom 30th percentile of local private rents to help ensure (a) affordable housing supp

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

My department is working closely with MHCLG as they develop the Long-Term Housing Strategy and through the Inter-Ministerial Group on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping. The review of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates considers a range of factors, includin...

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