United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 240
Social Housing: Foreign Nationals
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13 May 2026
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26 May 2026 · Answer
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Housing
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26 May 2026
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of social housing allocations made to households where the lead tenant is not a UK national in each of the last five years; what assessmen
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13 May 2026
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of social housing allocations made to households where the lead tenant is not a UK national in each of the last five years; what assessmen
Source: Commons
26 May 2026
Answer
Eligibility for social housing is already tightly controlled. If a person’s visa means that they cannot access state benefits or local authority housing assistance, they are not eligible for an allocation of social housing. Migrants arriving in the UK on ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-05-13/240
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1904464
- uk · wq-1904464 · source updated 26 May 2026