To ask the Minister for Communities what responsibility the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has to maintain its stock, given the Householder's Guide booklet appears to require tenants to sustain maintenance.

The Housing Executive has advised that the “Maintaining your home - a householder's guide” document has advice for the housing sector generally on what householders can do to manage and maintain their home and keep repairs to a minimum.

The nature and extent of the responsibility of the Housing Executive to maintain its stock - in respect of tenanted properties - is to be found in its standard tenancy agreement which can be found at https://www.nihe.gov.uk/Documents/Customer-charter/conditions-of-tenancy

The Housing Executive’s contractual responsibilities or obligations as a landlord are set out in Part II of that agreement, while Schedule 4 provides more details on the responsibilities of both the Housing Executive and the tenant.