To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the likely effect on the retail price of an average home information pack for a (a) leasehold and (b) freehold property of the April 2009 changes to rules on such packs. (268750)

The Home Information Pack (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations were accompanied by a regulatory impact assessment

www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/em/uksiem_20083107_en.pdf

setting out our assessment of the effect of the new rules which came into force on 6 April 2009.