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Social Rented Housing: Service Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing a Dispute Resolution Scheme, similar to the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, to resolve service charge disputes betwee

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
26 Jun 2025
Answer
8 Jul 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing a Dispute Resolution Scheme, similar to the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, to resolve service charge disputes betwee

  2. 26 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    By law, variable service charges must be reasonable. Overcharging through service charges is completely unacceptable. Should tenants of private registered providers of social housing wish to contest the reasonableness of their service charges, they may ma...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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