Home Information Packs

Mrs. Spelman
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.

Margaret Beckett
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.