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Commons Chamber
Social Rented Housing Sector - Thu 12 Feb 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) The latest findings from the English housing survey estimated that around 430,000 social homes still - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) , the major social housing provider in Northern Ireland, and with the housing associations. - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) It is important to direct residents to the Regulator of Social Housing and other avenues. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Announcements of funding for social housing may arrive towards the end of the decade; funding for schools - Speech Link
2: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) It is disappointing that social housing does not get a mention in the settlement. - Speech Link
3: Marie Rimmer (Lab - St Helens South and Whiston) and social care is integrated, which has helped with that increasing demand.Many children do not benefit - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Inner-London Local Authorities: Funding - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) have turned to their council for support with housing, while the lack of investment in new social housing - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Does she feel that there should be a focus on trying to use those sites for social housing and improve - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) housing rents have also been disastrous for the ability of our councils to fund the maintenance of social - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) The social housing crisis requires that new social homes are delivered at pace. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026 - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) benefit, jobseeker’s allowance, and contributory employment and support allowance. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) renters, including £12 billion in the private rented sector. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) It does not apply to child benefit. - Speech Link
2: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) That legislation introduced not only the two-child limit and the benefit cap, but the benefit freeze—we - Speech Link
3: Douglas McAllister (Lab - West Dunbartonshire) The two-child benefit cap makes poor children poorer. - Speech Link
4: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool West Derby) We are voting to remove the two-child benefit limit, not the benefit cap. - Speech Link
5: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab - Calder Valley) The two-child benefit cap is social and economic vandalism that we will reverse when this Bill becomes - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Consumer Energy Bills: Government Support - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Martin McCluskey (Lab - Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West) housing fund for local authorities and social landlords to upgrade homes for those on low incomes and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Warm Homes Plan - Wed 21 Jan 2026
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) This will help families living in social housing and low-income owner-occupiers to have warmer homes - Speech Link
2: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) We want them to benefit from the solar loans, too. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
New Towns - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Katrina Murray (Lab - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch) Social housing was central, not marginal, and each area had its own shops, post office, parking, garages - Speech Link
2: Richard Fuller (Con - North Bedfordshire) things not to break.Thirdly, will the Government’s specific social housing target apply in the context - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall and Camberwell Green) Will any new weighting be given to social housing in the shorter term? - Speech Link
4: Andrew Lewin (Lab - Welwyn Hatfield) need for social and affordable housing has always been important to me and integral to the new towns - Speech Link
5: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) impacts within towns, the pre-war garden cities and post-war new towns were 90% social housing. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) In Blackpool, we have a waiting list of around 12,000 for social and council housing. - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) in new and existing social housing. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) why 60% of our £39 billion social and affordable homes programme will be allocated to social rented - Speech Link
4: Liam Conlon (Lab - Beckenham and Penge) What steps his Department is taking to help tackle damp and mould in social housing. - Speech Link
5: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) and the Regulator of Social Housing can investigate evidence of systematic failure. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) I refer to social housing; personally, I have a preference for council housing, but the issue is broader - Speech Link
2: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) housing, which is undermining the social fabric of this country and limiting the opportunity for the - Speech Link
3: None stimulating local economies through job creation and improving housing stock, and social housing projects - Speech Link
4: Viscount Thurso (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I believe that many schemes would absolutely like to put money into social housing. - Speech Link