Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to require local councils to rehouse social tenants displaced due to disaster within their local area.

There are already safeguards in place to protect social tenants who lose their homes in a disaster. We would expect local authorities or housing associations to take steps to rehouse any existing social tenants whose existing home is destroyed or made uninhabitable in a fire or other disaster.