There are too many despairing tenants who are let down by low standards and ripped off by high fees. Standards must now become the business of government, writes John Healey.

I will complete some unfinished business in the Commons this week. As housing minister in Labour's final year in government my priorities were largely driven by the extra-ordinary economic circumstances we faced: helping people keep their homes, preventing private house-building collapse and starting a new wave of social housebuilding, especially council housing, to kick-start the economy in the wake of the global financial crisis.