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

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to devolving the control of the social rent cap to local government.

The Government believes that there is considerable benefit in providing a consistent national framework for calculating maximum rents on Social Rent and Affordable Rent properties, regardless of whether the landlord happens to be local authority or a private registered provider. This framework, although set nationally, takes local factors into account and gives individual social landlords the discretion to set lower rents where they wish to do so.