Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, under what circumstances he would intervene in a case handled by the Social Housing Regulator in the event that there was reason to believe it was failing in its responsibility to ensure that tenants are protected from serious detriment by the performance of their housing association.

Registered Social housing providers are regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing. The Regulator of Social Housing is an independent Regulator that has a number of tools available allowing it to take action where there is evidence that a registered provider is not meeting the requirements of its Standards and that this failure is leading to serious detriment to tenants. In keeping with its statutory objectives the regulator seeks to work with providers to address issues raised and only takes formal action where provider is failing to address the concerns.

If tenants of Registered Providers are not satisfied with the way the Regulator of Social Housing has handled their case, they will have to access the Regulator's complaint process. If following the Regulator's complaint procedure they are still unhappy, they can ask their MP to take their complaints to the independent Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to review the handling of their complaint.

Details of recent judgements made by the regulator may be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-judgements-and-regulatory-notices.

This table is updated each time a new regulatory judgement or notice is issued.