Social Rented Housing: Service Charges

(asked on 20th December 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an estimate of trends in the level of services charges in the housing association sector in each of the last five years; and what impact service charge inflation has had on social housing tenants in Birmingham.


Answered by
Dehenna Davison Portrait
Dehenna Davison
This question was answered on 13th January 2023

The Department does not hold information on service charges for all tenants in the social sector.

The Government strongly believes that service charges should be transparent and communicated effectively. The Government believes that there should be a clear route to challenge or redress if things go wrong.

As announced at the Autumn Statement on 17 November 2022, an increase in the cap on social housing rents has been set at 7% for 2023-24. This followed the consultation we carried out last year, which is available here. We published an Impact Assessment alongside the consultation and will publish a final Impact Assessment in due course.

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