Housing
Housing policy, homelessness, social housing, housing crisis
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 29PMQs 2026-02-04
I am proud that Labour MPs voted yesterday to remove the two-child limit and lift 400,000 children out of poverty, but child poverty cannot be eradicated while children are living in overcrowded tempo...
PMQs 2026-01-28
I want to put on the record my condemnation of President Trump’s plain wrong comments that so undermine the commitment of our brave British servicemen and women at home and abroad, which the Deputy Pr...
PMQs 2026-01-28
In my borough, the social housing waiting list exceeds 7,000 live applications. Council housing offers my constituents the safety and security they deserve. What further steps can the Government take ...
PMQs 2026-01-14
I offer my condolences to the families of the four people who died in the road traffic accident that occurred over the weekend in my constituency. Families in Bolton South and Walkden are already bene...
PMQs 2026-01-14
I welcome the Government’s commitment to tackling child poverty and recognising high-quality education as an escape route. However, young people attending Churchill community college have been taught ...
PMQs 2025-10-22
In Cornwall we are developing a strategy to provide housing at sites such as Pydar in my constituency, which needs support from Homes England. Will the Prime Minister arrange for us to meet the Housin...
PMQs 2025-09-10
Will the Prime Minister share with the House what actions the Government are taking to help leaseholders and bring in a system of commonhold?...
PMQs 2025-07-16
In Stockport, approximately 20% of families live in social housing. After Stockport Liberal Democrat and Conservative councillors blocked the Greater Manchester spatial framework proposal in 2020, the...
PMQs 2025-07-02
Q6. Hemel Hempstead is a new town that was built by a Labour Government after the second world war and provided decent housing to families like mine, yet 80 years on, the No. 1 issue in my case work i...
PMQs 2025-06-25
Quiet residential streets such as Tiverton Road and Organ Hall Road are being blighted by family houses being converted into HMOs. May I urge the right hon. Lady to look at enhancing the powers of loc...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 272Indefinite Leave to Remain Poverty 2026-02-09
Some 300,000 children living legally in the UK will face a decade of limbo under the Government's earned settlement proposals. The wait for settled status is extended by at least five years during whi...
Support for Veterans 2026-02-02
What assessment has the Minister made of the adequacy of housing provision for military veterans, particularly those with service-related injuries or disabilities, in rural areas such as Derbyshire Da...
Armed Forces Housing 2026-02-02
There is massive improvement in forces housing, but there is a site at Ballykinler that has been lying vacant for, I understand, five years. It is heated, and it has new windows. There has been lots o...
Business Operating Costs 2026-01-29
What steps he is taking to support businesses with their operating costs? The irony for many small businesses in Chichester is that they are busy, well established and popular. It is not bad business ...
Social Housing Damp and Mould 2026-01-12
Social housing disrepair and neglect is one of the most common issues in my inbox, particularly in Penge, Crystal Palace and Anerley. In one case, a mum in Penge saw her two children develop breathing...
Social and Affordable Homes Banbury 2026-01-12
Nearly 11,000 homes in Cherwell district have been granted planning permission but remain unbuilt. This causes understandable frustration for local residents and the thousands of people in housing nee...
Social and Affordable Homes Aldershot 2026-01-12
A veteran in my constituency who is the father of five young daughters has spent nearly three years waiting for a four-bedroom social home while raising his family in a two-bedroom property. He has no...
Leasehold Reform 2026-01-12
More than 700 of my constituents living in new builds in and around Reading have written to me about high fees and unfair behaviour from property management agents. One constituent, called Sunil, said...
Topical Questions 2026-01-12
Several prominent buildings in Stafford have been left vacant for long periods, with landlords allowing sites to fall into disrepair with no intention of bringing them up to standard. Labour-led Staff...
Topical Questions 2026-01-12
Across the winter months, I have received an increased amount of casework from residents of Harlow who are suffering from damp and mould in their houses. They deserve quicker repairs and higher standa...