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Deregulation Bill

Proceeding contribution from Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 10 March 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills on Deregulation Bill.

On the number of revenge evictions, I will have to get back to the hon. Gentleman; I may get inspiration in the next few minutes. On whether there was coalition agreement on this issue, when the Department for Communities and Local Government looked at the impact of his amendments, it was clear that, in some cases, they would allow a landlord to make a retaliatory eviction on the day after the landlord had completed a repair. That would go completely against the intent of the provisions in terms of protecting tenants. It would permit a landlord to evict a tenant as soon as repairs had been completed using a section 21 eviction notice. That is not in the spirit of preventing retaliatory evictions, but merely delays them until after repairs are completed.

On the number of revenge evictions, as the hon. Gentleman will probably know, the figure is estimated to be some 80,000 per year. The source of that figure was a YouGov survey of 4,500 renters.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
594 c186 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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