Select Committee · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

The finances and sustainability of the social housing sector

Status: Closed Opened: 28 Mar 2023 Closed: 28 May 2024 21 recommendations 13 conclusions 1 report

This inquiry seeks to examine the finances and sustainability of the social housing sector in England. In recent years the financial pressures for social landlords have increased as they face the demands of building new homes, retrofitting existing stock to improve energy efficiency, remediating stock with cladding and other building safety issues, and tackling issues …

Reports

1 report

Title	HC No.	Published	Items	Response
Sixth Report - The Finances and Sustainability of the Socia…	HC 60	8 May 2024	34	Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item

20 Recommendation Sixth Report - The Finances and Sustain… Accepted in Part

Conduct and publish biannual reviews of Regulator's scrutiny of social housing financing models.

Accordingly, we recommend that the Regulator must regularly conduct reviews of its own understanding of and ability to scrutinise new financing models in the social housing sector. These reviews must be published biannually in order to provide reassurance and transparently share some of the key challenges that the Regulator faces.

Government response. The government agrees with the importance of understanding and scrutinising the for-profit sector, stating it has a 2024-25 priority to review its current knowledge and that internal audit reports are published, but does not explicitly commit to biannual published reviews …

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Oral evidence sessions

4 sessions

Date	Witnesses
22 Jan 2024	Bernadette Conroy · Regulator of Social Housing, Jonathan Walters · Regulator of Social Housing, Peter Denton · Homes England, Shahi Islam · Homes England, The Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities	View ↗
11 Sep 2023	Dave Meseck · DMG Eco, Felix Ejgel · S&P Global Ratings, Gemma Bourne · Big Society Capital, Neil Brown · Inclusion Group, Simon Century · Legal and General, Steve Collins · Rentplus-UK	View ↗
19 Jun 2023	Conrad Hall · Newham Council, Councillor Pippa Heylings · Local Government Association, Deborah Heenan · Populo, Jamie Kellett · abrdn, John Marr · UK Finance, Kathryn Jones · Dudley Council, Michael Scorer · Southwark Council, Piers Williamson · The Housing Finance Corporation	View ↗
12 Jun 2023	Fiona Fletcher Smith · G15, James Prestwich · Chartered Institute of Housing, Kate Henderson · National Housing Federation, Kate Wareing · Soha Housing, Paul Fiddaman · Karbon Homes, Professor Tony Crook · University of Sheffield	View ↗

Correspondence

7 letters

Date	Direction	Title
17 Jan 2024	To cttee	Letter from Minister Rowley to the Chair dated 16 January 2024 concerning givin…
17 Jan 2024	To cttee	Letter from the Chair to the Housing Minister dated 15 January 2024 concerning …
13 Dec 2023	To cttee	Letter from the Chair to the Housing Minister dated 5 December 2023 concerning …
8 Nov 2023	To cttee	Letter from Rentplus concerning follow-up from the Committee’s session on 11 Se…
12 Sep 2023	To cttee	Letter from Sage Homes to the Chair dated 24 July 2023 concerning finances of s…
12 Sep 2023	To cttee	Letter from National Housing Federation, G15, Karbon Homes and Soha Housing to …
27 Jun 2023	To cttee	Letter from Rentplus to the Chair dated 21 June 2023 concerning the Rent to Buy…