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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he plans to take to help housing associations fulfil their new responsibilities under the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill, in the context of increases in the cost of living and inflation.

Registered providers of social housing already have a duty to comply with the Regulator of Social Housing's standards. The Regulator will consult on its revised consumer standards following the passage of legislation and the issuance of government directions, and is already conducting extensive engagement with the sector to prepare providers for the new regulatory regime.

More widely, all social landlords should be delivering decent social housing, and prioritising repairs and improvements that need to be made to ensure housing is up to standard.