Social Rented Housing: Electrical Safety

(asked on 12th July 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment has he made of trend in compliance with electrical safety regulations in the social rented sector.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 25th July 2018

The English Housing Survey includes information on the presence of five electrical safety features: modern PVC wiring, modern earthing, modern consumer unit casing, miniature circuit breakers and residual current devices. The latest English Housing Survey stock condition report was published 12 July this year and is available at- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2016-stock-condition. The report finds that, in the social rented sector 25.2 per cent of homes did not have all five electrical safety features.

The Government has been listening to social housing residents and landlords in a programme of visits across England to better understand the issues and concerns they have, including concerns around electrical safety.

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