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Urgent Question: changes to housing benefit for 18-21 year olds

7 March 2017 (updated on 7 March 2017)

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Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, John Healey, is to ask an Urgent Question on the impact on homelessness of the recent confirmation of Government plans to remove automatic entitlement to housing benefit from 18-21 year olds.

The question is expected at 12.30pm on Tuesday 7 March in the House of Commons.

Timings are approximate as Parliamentary business is subject to change.

Transcripts of proceedings in the House of Commons Chamber are available in Hansard online three hours after they happen.

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About Urgent Questions

At times MPs may want to put an urgent question to a Minister. If a matter of public importance has arisen, which an MP believes requires an immediate answer from a government minister, they may apply to the Speaker to put forward such a question.

The relevant government department would be informed at once.

If the Speaker agrees, the question will be asked after that day’s Question Time.

Once the MP has asked the main question, they are allowed to ask a supplementary question. Other MPs will then be called to ask further questions on the same subject.

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