Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023

25 Secretary of State’s duty to give direction about providing information to tenants

(1) The Secretary of State must give a direction to the Regulator of Social Housing under section 197(2A) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 about setting a standard under section 194C of that Act (standards relating to information and transparency) for the purpose of securing that registered providers of social housing are required to provide their tenants of low cost rental accommodation with information about—

(a) their tenants’ rights in connection with the low cost rental accommodation and with facilities or services provided in connection with that accommodation, and

(b) how their tenants can make a complaint against them.

(2) The Secretary of State must give the direction before the end of the period of six months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

(3) In this section—

• “low cost rental accommodation” means accommodation which—

  (a)

  is low cost rental accommodation (as defined in section 69 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008) provided by a registered provider of social housing, and

  (b)

  is not low cost home ownership accommodation (as defined in section 70 of that Act);

• “tenant”, in relation to low cost rental accommodation, includes other occupiers.