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Housing and Regeneration Bill

It answers the point, but not in a way which leaves me wholly happy. Here we have another situation where we are relying on the regulator to be reasonable. There is nothing here to say that the charge should in any way relate to a reasonable assessment of the need for the survey. I hear what the Minister has to say. It is most reassuring that this is not novel. If providers have not experienced problems in the past, commonsense might apply. No doubt providers will read this report—this came out of my own head; I was not asked to raise the issue—and if they have a concern they will seek a way of taking forward a narrow but important point of fairness. Because we rightly started from the tenants’ point of view, I have been concerned throughout this part of the Bill that, where there is an issue, it is easy to forget and overlook the need to be as even handed as possible with the providers. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 198 agreed to.