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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether regulations designed for large housing associations restrict small charitable housing groups from expanding; and what plans they have to amend the regulations to remove any such restrictions.

The Regulator of Social Housing is responsible for the regulation of registered providers of social housing in England.

The regulator’s primary focus is on promoting a viable, efficient and well-governed social housing sector able to deliver the homes that we need. The regulator’s economic and consumer standards apply to both large (1,000 homes or more) and small (fewer than 1,000 homes) registered providers. It is for individual providers to ensure compliance with the standards and the regulator does not specify how they should do that. The regulator’s publication (attached), Regulating the Standards, outlines its operational approach to assessing compliance with the economic and consumer standards for both large and small providers.