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Social Rented Housing: Rents

Asked by Sarah CoombesLabourMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 18 December 2024UIN 19993

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of housing associations in England that are charging tenants for a 53 week rent year.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

The Government does not collect data on whether weekly rent charged by housing associations is collected 52 or 53 times in a year. Government policy on social housing rents stipulates how the maximum weekly rent is to be calculated for any given social housing property, not how many times that weekly rent may be charged in any given year. The arrangements for charging rent should be set out in a tenancy agreement.

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