Renters (Reform) Bill

My Lords, I remind the House of my relevant interests as a councillor, a vice-president of the Lo...

My Lords, I draw attention to my housing and property interests as on the register. This Second R...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Best, from whose wisdom and experience ...

My Lords, I begin by thanking my noble friend the Minister for her comprehensive opening statemen...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the Property Ombudsman. I warmly welcome the Bill. I ...

My Lords, I declare at the outset that, although I do not own any property in the private rented ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a landlord of almost 30 years and before that as a renter in t...

My Lords, I will address the fundamental change that the Bill makes, which is to Section 21 evict...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I have interests to declare as a chartered su...

My Lords, I declare my interests in the register as a Suffolk farmer with rented residential prop...

My Lords, I declare my conflicts: I am a former chartered surveyor and I have buy-to-let properti...

My Lords, I think I have received more briefings on this Bill than on any other Bill in the nearl...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for last week’s very helpful drop-in briefing session, wh...

My Lords, I declare my interests in the rural private rental sector, as set out in the register. ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Carrington, and I thank my noble friend...

My Lords, I declare my interests, in particular my interest with Peers for the Planet, which prob...

My Lords, I should begin with a short disclosure that my wife and I have in the next-door house u...

My Lords, I am neither a landlord nor a tenant, I have managed properties in the past and I have ...

I declare my interest as a member of the cohort of Local Government Association vice-presidents. ...

I would be happy to speak to the noble Baroness afterwards.

This will hopefully end that discrimination towards—yet again—the most vulnerable.

We would...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to close this Second Reading debate for the Opposition, and I thank al...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to close this debate and to reflect on the thoughtful contributions th...

I think the tenant can serve notice after four months but they leave after six months. Can the Mi...

I will check that but my notes tell me that it is six months before they can serve their notice.<...

We had all these enforcement measures in the social rental sector but we still brought in Awaab’s...

The difference, as I have just alluded to, is between one person having to get external maintenan...

I asked whether the Minister would talk to the universities sector about this. It has made very s...

I assure the noble Baroness that those discussions are already ongoing. The department is in inte...

September.

I thank noble Lords.

Some noble Lords were concerned that the Bill restricts landlords’ abi...

My Lords, I do not wish to prolong this. In relation to the comments that the Minister made on on...

I will take that into account, but I also extend an invitation to the noble Baroness to meet my t...

Just before the Minister sits down, I have a very simple and short question; it is the one I rais...

As a quick answer, I cannot give the noble Lord that clarification. The intention here is to impr...

I thank the Minister for that very worthy answer; these are very worthy objectives. I think the a...

As I said, there will be an annual report, which will monitor in detail the impact of the Bill, a...

I apologise. I too do not want to prolong this, but I and a number of noble Lords mentioned conce...

I undertake to do that. I invite all Peers who would like to do so to come to discuss these thing...

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