Tenant Services Authority

Mr. Burstow
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.

Mr. Iain Wright
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.

Grant Shapps
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.

Mr. Iain Wright
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

Grant Shapps
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.

Mr. Iain Wright
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.