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Home Information Packs

Volume 461: debated on Monday 18 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the market price of a home information pack, including VAT, excluding the Home Condition Report element. (128549)

Estimates of the cost of compiling a Home Information Pack are set out in the Impact Assessment that was published alongside the Home Information Pack Regulations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether details of energy performance certificates will be held on the Home Condition Report database. (129251)

There will be separate registers for Energy Performance Certificates and Home Condition Reports.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what her Department’s latest estimate is of the average market cost of a home information pack, including VAT, (a) with a home condition report and (b) without a home condition report following the publication of the Home Information Pack Regulations 2007. (137570)

Estimates of the cost of compiling a Home Information Pack are set out in the Impact Assessment that was published alongside the Home Information Pack Regulations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many accredited home information pack inspectors are ready to operate in (a) the UK and (b) the South West; and how many are expected to be ready by 1 June 2007. (138411)

I refer the hon. Member to the statement made by the Secretary of State on 22 May 2007, Official Report, column 1107, and the answer given to the hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) on 11 June 2007, Official Report, column 817W.