| Heading: |
Almshouses: Finance |
| Question ID: |
1794982 |
| UIN: |
46283 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5122 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Manuela Perteghella
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| Asking Member handle: |
mp4stratford
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@mp4stratford
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to allow almshouses to access housing-related grants. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4520 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Matthew Pennycook
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| Answering Member handle: |
mtpennycook
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mtpennycook
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
Almshouse charities can bid for grant funding from the Affordable Homes Programme if they are registered social housing providers, subject to oversight by the Regulator of Social Housing. 264 out of 1,600 almshouses charities have already taken this step. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |