Written questions

Affordable Housing: Fees and Charges

Commons · Question 56441 · Tabled 2 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 10 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that the maintenance charges charged by affordable housing associations do not limit people’s ability to engage with the affordable housing sch

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 10 Jun 2025

The government recognise the considerable financial strain that rising services charges are placing on leaseholders and tenants of social housing.The level of service charge that leaseholders and tenants pay depends on many factors and what those service ...