Question follow-through · 53143
Social Rented Housing: Service Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of compliance by social landlords with guidance that service charge increases are restricted in line with rent increases.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of compliance by social landlords with guidance that service charge increases are restricted in line with rent increases.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
The government does not regulate the level of service charges for social housing tenants.Our policy statement on social housing rents states that Registered Providers of social housing should endeavour to keep any service charge increases for tenants with...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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