§ Mr. George Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what consideration he is giving to the provision of further rights for public sector tenants in respect of district heating charges.
§ Mr. StanleyI have today issued a consultation letter inviting the views of the local authority associations, the New Towns Association and the National Federation of Housing Associations on the possibility of improving the information given to tenants on communal heating charges and of enabling the reasonableness of such charges to be challenged, and I am placing a copy of this letter in the Library. I should make it clear that the Government have not reached any conclusions on these issues.