Question follow-through · 56444

Affordable Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to increase the time for which affordable housing associations are required to help with repair costs.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
4 Jun 2025
Answer
10 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to increase the time for which affordable housing associations are required to help with repair costs.

  2. 4 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The government recognise the considerable financial strain that rising services charges are placing on leaseholders and tenants of social housing.The level of service charge that leaseholders and tenants pay depends on many factors and what those service ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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