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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 04 Nov 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield Heeley) The Government have been clear: the benefit bill will come down, and we are already taking steps to ensure - Speech Link
2: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield Heeley) I have repeatedly said that the benefit bill will come down, and have set out the steps that this Labour - Speech Link
3: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield Heeley) We are tackling the long-term drivers of welfare spending, including high housing costs, and we will - Speech Link
4: Louise Haigh (Lab - Sheffield Heeley) recommendations of the Bell review to tackle antisemitism in schools and universities, and delivering our social - Speech Link
5: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) employment rights for offshore workers; about the energy efficiency of properties in the private rented - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Housing Allowance: Freeze - Wed 04 Nov 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) Around one-third of households in the private rented sector now get housing support from DWP. - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) My Lords, does the Minister accept that very few landlords are going to let to anyone on housing benefit - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) , either housing benefit or universal credit, apply and get help from their councils through discretionary - Speech Link
4: Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab - Life peer) country builds the social homes we know are needed to meet sustainable long-term housing need? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) One example is Awaab’s law, which came into force in the social rented sector in October last year. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Social Housing Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 03 Nov 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None of social housing tenants to access Right to Buy.” - Speech Link
2: None housing;(b) the extent to which social housing tenants’ rights are protected by the provisions of the - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) The Government want to ensure that social housing is used effectively and efficiently to meet housing - Speech Link
4: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) It therefore made a significant contribution to not just housing but social housing. - Speech Link
5: None social housing tenants. - Speech Link
6: None social housing tenants. - Speech Link
7: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) social housing tenants. - Speech Link
8: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) social housing tenants. - Speech Link
9: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) social housing tenants. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 02 Nov 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Andrew George (LD - St Ives) Would it not be far better to invest that money in social housing for local people in desperate housing - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) housing, which I welcome. - Speech Link
3: Amanda Hack (Lab - North West Leicestershire) After two decades working in the social housing sector, I cannot express the difference that that will - Speech Link
4: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) is social housing, against a national average of 18%. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 02 Nov 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: John Cooper (Con - Dumfries and Galloway) When it comes to housing, this Government are drowning, not waving, aren’t they? - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) The housing delivery test is an annual measurement of housing delivery in local planning authority areas - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) , is to build more housing supply. - Speech Link
4: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) It delivers a major boost to council housing with an additional £1.5 billion for the social and affordable - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 29 Oct 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) I am pleased that the Budget delivers for house building, and will mean more council and social housing - Speech Link
2: Chris Webb (Lab - Blackpool South) At the end of last year, 11,844 people in Blackpool were waiting for social housing. - Speech Link
3: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) They will not benefit from the changes on standing charges. - Speech Link
4: Siobhain McDonagh (Lab - Mitcham and Morden) The Chancellor’s additional investment in social and affordable housing is a welcome commitment to tackling - Speech Link
5: Richard Baker (Lab - Glenrothes and Mid Fife) In my constituency, nine out of 10 households will benefit. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Social Housing Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Thu 29 Oct 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Patrick Spencer (Con - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) We need social housing, but we are talking about the future of social housing, the future of our economy - Speech Link
2: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) We are vigorously prioritising social rented housing, we are rebuilding the capacity of councils and - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) These requirements already apply to newly built social housing, ensuring that residents benefit from - Speech Link
4: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) It will apply to all new homes, including social housing. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Social Housing Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 27 Oct 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) social rented homes. - Speech Link
2: Lewis Cocking (Con - Broxbourne) build any more social housing because of the right to buy. - Speech Link
3: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) The right to acquire applies to housing association homes built or acquired with social housing grant - Speech Link
4: None other providers of social housing may not sell the property. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 27 Oct 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) To drive the pace of remediation work, we also gave social housing providers equal access to Government - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) As I said, we have given social housing providers access to Government funding schemes for the first - Speech Link
3: Angela Rayner (Lab - Ashton-under-Lyne) Gentleman as the Bill goes through the House.We have also ensured that social housing providers have - Speech Link
4: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds South) We want more social housing, and each one would be one more unit. - Speech Link
5: Jessica Toale (Lab - Bournemouth West) One building, a social housing building in my constituency, had some botched internal works, leaving - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Council Housing - Tue 27 Oct 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Chris Hinchliff (Lab - North East Hertfordshire) I must declare an interest as the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on council and social housing - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) In Northern Ireland, social housing is supplied by the Housing Executive, which face issues similar to - Speech Link
3: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab - Poole) Just 1% of properties in Poole are affordable to rent at the local rate of housing benefit. - Speech Link
4: Lee Pitcher (Lab - Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme) Acquiring long-term empty houses for social housing could deliver more than 8,000 additional social rented - Speech Link