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Renters’ Rights Bill

Proceeding contribution from Kemi Badenoch (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 October 2024. It occurred during Debate on bills on Renters’ Rights Bill.

We need to focus on the contents of the Bill. If anyone has an issue with landlords in this House, it is Labour Members—I notice the hon. Member for Ilford South (Jas Athwal) ran away before the discussion about the Bill started. They should look at themselves, and the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells had better check his fellow Members before asking that sort of question.

As I was saying, when the problems of protracted litigation in the courts are combined with the new, extended and highly convoluted notice requirements for recovering a property where the tenant has not paid the rent, a landlord whose tenant is in arrears will face many months of uncertainty and cost. Let me summarise in two words why the Bill will fail: unintended consequences. That is what we get when we start with policy rather than first principles.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
754 c343 
Session
2024-25
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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