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HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. The intention of this amendment is to make all grounds for eviction discretionary for the court. As the…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 77, in schedule 1, page 155, line 6, at end insert— “(1A) In the heading of Part 1, omit ‘must’ and insert ‘may’. (1B) Omit the heading of Part II.” This…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn .29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)The amendment’s purpose is to require the evidence to be provided by landlords on grounds 1 and 1A, in the case of occupying the home or selling the property, to be clearly stated…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I accept what the Minister says about the Bill’s intent and that there are very limited circumstances in which discretion would be available. It is disappointing, though, that it…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I hear what the Minister says. The case was made forcefully by witnesses in oral evidence that the discretionary grounds for eviction are far too limited and that we need to see…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 68, in clause 4, page 5, line 40, at end insert— “(fa) after subsection (5A), insert— ‘(5B) Where the court makes an order for possession on grounds 1 or…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)The Minister says that the amendment does not include what would happen if the evidence was not provided—clearly, the evidence would not be there and the case would be weakened on…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)Amendments 70 and 71 would align the two weeks’ notice for students in HMOs with the two weeks’ notice that the Bill provides that students would have in purpose-built student…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I rise to support the Government on this issue, as Liberal Democrats did in the context of the Renters (Reform) Bill in the previous Parliament. To my mind, introducing a…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I rise to ask the Minister to clarify something for my benefit, and possibly that of other people. The Liberal Democrats support the omission in paragraph 8 of the grounds for…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 76, in clause 7, page 8, line 31, leave out from “determination” to the end of line 36 and insert— “(4AA) Where the rent for a particular period of the…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)At the beginning of today’s sitting, the Minister and the shadow Minister asked the Committee to bear with them, because it was their first time leading the Committee stage of a…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I thank the Minister for his response on those points. We would argue that the current metric for market rents is actually more closely linked to inflation, and more likely to be…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Caroline—as it was to serve under Sir Christopher’s chairmanship until I was somewhat surprised to be interrupted by the…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)I would be delighted if that were the case. We would welcome anything that reduced the risk of extremely steep rent increases for tenants—I think Members on both sides of the…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Would the hon. Gentleman accept that the main costs landlords face are not from the price of goods in the shops, but the price of borrowing—the price of the loans with which they…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 7 ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 8 Challenging amount or increase of rent29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)Will the Minister let me put on the record the fact that during the coalition Government from 2010 to 2015, whole Government Departments, including the Education and Health…29 Oct 2024