Question follow-through · 34983
Rented Housing: Utilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to (a) issue guidance and (b) strengthen regulations to ensure that landlords provide (i) transparent and (ii) fair billing when reselling utilities
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to (a) issue guidance and (b) strengthen regulations to ensure that landlords provide (i) transparent and (ii) fair billing when reselling utilities
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
Measures are already in place to protect tenants from landlords passing on inflated utility bills. Where tenants pay their landlord for their water, rather than paying a water company directly, they are protected by Ofwat’s guidelines on water resale. Thi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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