HC Deb 04 July 2003 vol 408 c553W
Mr. Goodman

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what arrangements are in place to control rent increases charged by housing associations. [123574]

Keith Hill

The Housing Corporation's rent influencing regime for implementing the rent restructuring framework sets out the requirement that in any one year an individual rent does not change by more than £2 a week, in addition to the guideline limit of Retail Price Index plus 0.5 per cent. So the maximum rent increase for a housing association tenant in any one year is RPI plus 0.5 per cent. plus £2 a week.