PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Rented Housing: Electrical Safety (28 June 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will introduce mandatory electrical safety checks in the social rented sector in response to the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Asked by:
Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

Social landlords are already obliged, by law, to maintain the structure and exterior of their properties, and to keep in repair and proper working order the sanitation, water, gas and electricity installations.

The Homes and Communities Agency’s national standards also require social landlords to ensure (subject to an agreed extension in some instances, which must be explained to tenants) that all their homes meet the Decent Homes Standard and to meet all applicable statutory requirements that provide for the health and safety of the occupants in their homes.


Answered by:
Lord Sharma (Conservative)
14 July 2017

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