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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason the recruitment panel for the new Chair of the Regulator of Social Housing did not include a tenant of social housing.

The membership of the Assessment Panel advising the Minister for Housing on appointable candidates met the requirements of the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments and included a senior departmental official and an independent member. The Governance Code does not require Panels to include a representative of the sector to which the public body relates.