Consultation on fees

Consultation outcome

Consultation on fees

From:: Regulator of Social Housing
Published: 5 September 2023
Last updated: 8 May 2024 鈥� See all updates

Applies to England

Detail of outcome

The new fees principles come into force on 1 July 2024.

This page includes a decision statement which sets out the final outcome of the consultation on changes to our fees regime which ran from 5 September 2023 to 31 October 2023.

This page also includes all annexes to the decision statement including a business engagement assessment.

For accessible (HTML) versions of the decision statement and decision instrument, please see:

Decision Statement which contains the final outcome of the regulator鈥檚 consultation.
Decision Instrument which records the regulator鈥檚 decision.

If you require the information in other formats please email聽[email protected]聽or call 0300 124 5225.

Details of feedback received

The decision statement summarises the key areas of feedback received to the consultation on changes to our fees regime. The annexes include numerical analysis of the consultation responses and a list of respondents to the consultation.

Original consultation

Summary

The Regulator of Social Housing is consulting on proposed changes to its fees principles and levels in line with recent legislative and government requirements.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 5 September 2023 to 6:30pm on 31 October 2023

Consultation description

The Regulator of Social Housing currently charges private registered providers for initial entry to its register and for proactive economic regulation.鈥疘ts fee-charging powers are set out in Section 117 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008

The regulator is in the process of revising its fees principles and reviewing the level of the fees it charges registered providers. This is to ensure that the fees principles align with its new powers in the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 and that it has adequate resources to undertake its expanded remit of proactive consumer regulation.

This consultation relates to proposed changes to the regulator鈥檚 fees principles and the level of the fees it charges registered providers. It represents an opportunity for interested persons, bodies and organisations to influence these proposals.

This page includes:

the consultation paper
the business engagement assessment

We have also published a press release on the fees consultation.