Written questions

Veterans: Social Rented Housing

Commons · Question 48964 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 8 May 2025

Question

Asked by Alberto Costa

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

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 8 May 2025

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 ...