This joint submission with ARCH, in response to the committee’s call for evidence, focuses on the council housing sector and does not attempt to answer questions relating to Registered Providers. Our answers to many of the questions draw on the findings of three major reports we commissioned jointly, in partnership with the Local Government Association, from Savills Affordable Housing Consultancy. All are based on research carried out during the summer and autumn of 2022 and examine the impact of inflation, rising prices, new regulatory legislation and successive years of enforced rent cuts on the council housing sector.