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Council Housing: Standards

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 8 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what protections will be provided to local authority tenants on (a) security of tenure, (b) rent levels and (c) improvements to reach the Decent Homes standard under his proposals for the self-financing of council housing. (284982)

The proposals for self-financing would have no impact on the statutory security of tenure enjoyed by council tenants. Nor do they include any proposed changes to the Government’s social rent policy. Self-financing would need to deliver the resources required to maintain the Decent Homes standard; any backlog of Decent Homes work at the time of a self-financing settlement would have to be addressed through Communities and Local Government capital programmes, as currently.