The Levelling Up Select Committee (LUHC), a cross-party group of MPs, will examine the provisions of the Renters Reform Bill and the impact it will have on landlords and tenants this afternoon. It will include a focus on the report into Reforming the Private Rented Sector (published in February 2023) which focussed on the proposals included in the government’s White Paper.
There will be questions from the committee to housing minister Rachel Maclean, to the social sector Housing Ombudsman Richard Blakeway, and renters and landlords’ groups, including Ben Beadle, the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. Some senior officials from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and the Communities will also be in the hot seat.
Questions are likely to focus on the implications of a new ombudsman for the private rented sector, abolishing assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs), and aspects of the sector not covered by the Bill explicitly such as housing quality and affordability.
The government has not yet published its response to the Committee’s report.
The Committee’s report previously expressed concerns that the government risked undermining its own proposed tenancy reforms, include the banning of section 21 evictions, unless it fixed delays in the court system.
The report made a series of recommendations in relation to tenancy reform, including on proposed sales and occupations grounds, on housing standards and on affordability.
The session begins at 4pm and you will be able to watch live by clicking here.
Comments (3)
Even if every landlord wrote to Gove it would not make a jot of difference,
However if every PRS tenant wrote, that would make a difference, but it won’t happen.
Ben Beadle? Is that the best defence landlords have got? Has ARLA written a letter?
After 11 years of planning/consulting various bodies and 4 years of writing the only thing that will come to fruition will be wrong.
p up in a brewery comes to mind.