Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 48964

Veterans: Social Rented Housing

Tabled: 29 April 2025
Answered: 8 May 2025

Question

Alberto Costa

ConservativeSouth Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure that armed forces veterans are given priority status on local authority housing registers.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
Local authorities are responsible for designing and managing their own housing allocations policies to meet local need within the framework of legislation under which certain categories of people must be given priority.By law, local authorities must give ...

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