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Tenant Services Authority

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department has allocated to the Tenant Services Authority in each of the next three years. (263352)

Indicative funding allocations for the Tenant Services Authority between 2009-11 is as follows:

£ million

2009-10

35.623

2010-11

35.173

This excludes any additional resources that may be allocated for specific initiatives at a later date. Following completion of the exercise to disaggregate the Housing Corporation spend, there was some late adjustments to the 2009-10 TSA budget. The £35.623 million is the latest position and this is reflected in the information submitted to the HM Treasury.

Budget allocations for the period after 2010-11 will be set as part of the next comprehensive spending review. Final budgets will be agreed with the TSA on an annual basis.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) dates and (b) locations of the planned regional events to be hosted by the Tenants Service Authority during phase 1 of its National Conversation are. (265258)

The National Conversation events organised by the TSA for tenants commenced in Leeds on 27 January and finished on 5 March in Bristol.

The complete list of regional National Conversation events for tenants is as follows:

Date of event

Leeds

27 January

Manchester

3 February

Birmingham

4 February

Durham

5 February

Leicester

11 February

Cambridge

12 February

Gatwick

24 February

Twickenham

25 February

London

26 February

Plymouth

4 March

Bristol

5 March

The TSA also hosted National Conversation events for landlords. A complete list of these is as follows:

Date

Venue

Location

11 March 2009

Aston Villa Stadium

Birmingham

12 March 2009

Corn Exchange

Exeter

17 March 2009

Ramside Hall

Durham

18 March 2009

City of Manchester Stadium

Manchester

19 March 2009

Emirates Stadium

London

Further information on the National Conversation can be found on the website at:

http://www.nationalconversation.co.uk/Conversations.aspx

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects the Tenant Services Authority and other interested parties to agree timescales for the process for the inclusion of local authorities and arms-length management organisations in the revised regulatory regime for social housing. (265326)

Section 114 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 allows the Secretary of State to make an order to bring local authorities within the Tenant Services Authority's regulatory regime. We intend to publish a draft order for consultation later this year. Following consideration of consultation responses we intend to lay an order and, subject to parliamentary approval, we expect that the TSA will be regulating local authority landlords from April 2010.