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HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Simon or Giles, do you have anything to add? Giles Peaker: I do not have much to add, but I am not sure whether we have detailed information about what in-tenancy rent increases…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Third sitting)Q Someone going through a no-fault eviction must pay the cost of moving. Should there be some sort of recompense? Earlier this week, it was suggested that the tenant could be…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Third sitting)And breaches of the lease are grounds for— Helen Gordon: Exactly. With the one we put in the representation on the Bill, it took us almost £200,000 and well over a year where we…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I have a few points, if I may. You mentioned that the property portal needs to be available to tenants, but their access to it is not explicit in the Bill. Is it your view that…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Simon? Simon Mullings: I have nothing to add on that.16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q The second part was about whether there should be some sort of recompense for tenants who are moving out, even if it is legitimate that they are moving out, through no fault of…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q The power of public pressure and the market might be more than the courts’ in that case. You have raised some of the fears about loopholes in grounds 1 and 1A. What protections…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q So deposit complaints should be included in the property portal? Liz Davies: I am thinking about it; I had not thought about it before, and it is a good point. However, on the…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q A lot of the reforms in this Bill will advantage people who are in the property for a long period of time. They will be able to enforce their in-tenancy rent controls better,…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q The Government have tabled an amendment that would create a ground 4A, which is what you were just talking about there. Have you had time to look at that and do you think it is…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)I have another question, but I do not want to hog all the questioning.16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I suspect that the property portal will suddenly tell us that information, if it is collected. I also wanted to ask about deposits. At the moment, deposits are held in a deposit…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Finally—we have a few more minutes—on Tuesday we heard that the two-month notice, meaning that someone can give notice and then move out within two months basically on the first…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I would like to go back to ground 4A being proposed by the Government. It makes it a very binary choice between there being students in the accommodation or no students in the…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q So you think there should be some restrictions on universities? Chloe Field: Yes.16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Some of us push very hard for citizenship lessons and wider lessons like that in schools, but that is another debate. You might not know about this, but when the deposit…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you think the property portal might provide an opportunity not just for information holding, but for information dissemination? James Munro: Yes, but the property portal will…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q We touched on rent repayment orders previously, where tenants are motivated to take their own enforcement because they could receive their own rent. Could those offer an option…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q On standing enforcement, a lot of local authorities use the selective licensing resource to help to pay for their enforcement. Is there an argument—perhaps the opposite argument…16 Nov 2023HANSARDRenters (Reform) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q It seems difficult to enforce blanket bans. Is there any way forward in which these bits of information are not disclosed and cannot be asked about in any form, directly or…16 Nov 2023