A question on #AffordableHousing tabled by Rachel Gilmour on 21-05-2025 has been answered by Matthew Pennycook.

Heading: Affordable Housing
Question ID: 1805219
UIN: 54208
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-05-21
Asking Member ID: 5252
Asking Member display name: Rachel Gilmour
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Rachel Gilmour
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to legally redefine the term affordable housing to be linked to social rent.
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Date answered: 2025-06-06
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Answering Member ID: 4520
Answering Member display name: Matthew Pennycook
Answering Member handle: mtpennycook
Answering Member Twitter reference: @mtpennycook
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Answer text: To reflect this government’s priorities, the revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 places greater emphasis on the delivery of Social Rent homes and includes a separate definition of Social Rent so that it is not referred...
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Answering body ID: 7
Answering body name: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tweeted: true