Clause 169 - Social Housing Ombudsman for Wales
Housing Bill
2:30 pm
Ms Yvette Cooper (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Pontefract and Castleford, Labour)
The clause contains new provisions for the social housing ombudsman for Wales. It will enable investigation of complaints made against registered social landlords to be taken independent of the regulatory function that is exercised by the National Assembly for Wales. The independent housing ombudsman in England already carries out many of those functions, and the Housing Corporation regulates RSLs. The arrangements are slightly different in Wales due to the smaller number of RSLs that need to be regulated and about which complaints need to be investigated, but the overall effect is the same.
I beg to move, that the clause stand part of the Bill.
Mr Peter Pike (Burnley, Labour)
Order. The Minister does not need to move clause stand part, as I proposed the question, to which anyone can speak.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 169 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Schedule 8 agreed to.
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