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Poplar HARCA: Tower Hamlets Community Housing

Question for Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

UIN 23860, tabled on 26 April 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will have discussions with the Regulator of Social Housing on whether it has instructed the Board of Tower Hamlets Community Housing to discontinue the negotiations with Poplar HARCA about the proposed merger of the organisations.

Answered on

7 May 2024

The Regulator of Social Housing is an Arms Length Body with operational independence from government. It operates according to the regulatory framework which sets out the economic and consumer standards that registered providers of social housing are required to meet.

Tower Hamlets Community Housing is an independent private sector organisation that makes its own commercial decisions.