Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act – Consultation

Body/bodies responsible for the consultation: 

The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)  

Duration: 

This consultation will last for twelve weeks from 20 February to 15 May 2025. 

Enquiries: 

For any enquiries about the consultation please contact: SupportedHousingConsultations@communities.gov.uk  

How to respond: 

Information you provide in response to this consultation, including personal information, may be disclosed in accordance with UK legislation (the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004).  

Please do not include any details about your personal circumstances in your response.

If you want the information that you provide to be treated as confidential, please tell us but be aware that we cannot guarantee confidentiality in all circumstances. An automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not be regarded by us as a confidentiality request. We will process your personal data in accordance with all applicable data protection laws. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is the data controller. The Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dataprotection@communities.gov.uk. The privacy policy is found here.

We will summarise all responses and publish this in the government response on GOV.UK. The summary will include a list of names of organisations that responded, but not people’s names, addresses or other contact details. 

Citizen Space is the department’s online consultation portal and the preferred route for receiving consultation responses. We strongly encourage responses are made via Citizen Space, particularly from organisations with access to online facilities such as local authorities and businesses. Consultations receive a high-level of interest across many sectors. Using the online survey greatly assists the analysis of your response.

If you cannot respond via Citizen Space, you can email your response to SupportedHousingConsultations@communities.gov.uk. If emailing your response, please email us first so that we can send across a PDF document which can be used to fill in the response. Please answer all the questions that are relevant to you.

Any written responses should be sent to:

Supported Housing Consultation Team

Housing with Care and Support
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Floor 3 (Mail point B10)

Fry Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

When you reply, it would be particularly useful if you could please confirm:

• whether you are replying as an individual or submitting an official response on behalf of an organisation
• your name
• your position (if applicable)
• the name of organisation (if applicable)

Please be clear on which question or paragraph number your comment relates to. Also ensure that the text of your response is in a format that allows copying of individual sentences or paragraphs (e.g. in a Microsoft Word document).

The easy read version of this consultation as well as a British Sign Language and audio version are available at this link.

A Braille version is available on request – please email supportedhousingconsultations@communities.gov.uk.

Thank you for taking time to submit your response to this consultation.