Social Rented Housing: Veterans
Commons · Question 76447 · Tabled 10 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 19 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are implementing the changes introduced in November 2024 to exempt all veterans from local connection require
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 19 Sep 2025
The Allocation of Housing (Qualification Criteria for Armed Forces) (England) (Amendment) Regulations, which came into force in December 2024, mean that local authorities are no longer allowed to apply local connection tests to veterans of the Regular Arm...