To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of (a) setting up and (b) operating for the first year the (i) Tenant Services Agency and (ii) the Homes and Communities Agency. (304521)

The set up costs of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and Tenant Services Authority (TSA) are set out in the Housing and Regeneration Bill-Impact Assessment, a copy of which is in the House Library

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/housing/housingregenactimpactassess

The running costs for both the HCA and the TSA can be found in the published financial statements for 2008-09.

http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/annual-report-2009.htm

and

http://www.tenantservicesauthority.org/server/show/ConWebDoc.19672