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HANSARDRogue Landlords RegisterMy Lords, the majority of private rented sector landlords provide decent and well-maintained homes; in fact, the proportion of non-decent homes has declined dramatically from 41%…26 May 2021HANSARDRogue Landlords RegisterMy Lords, this database is not meant to be a metric of local authority enforcement work. In its current form, it is targeted at only the very worst and most persistent offenders…26 May 2021HANSARDRogue Landlords RegisterMy Lords, I declare my residential and commercial property interests as set out in the register. The Housing and Planning Act 2016 introduced a database of rogue landlords and…26 May 2021HANSARDRogue Landlords RegisterMy Lords, one of the measures in our wider reform of the relationship between landlords and tenants is to make sure that landlords are all members of a redress scheme. I will look…26 May 2021HANSARDRogue Landlords RegisterThe report that my noble friend refers to provides valuable insights, highlighting illegal evictions and behaviours by the most criminal and irresponsible landlords and agents.…26 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesMy Lords, I recognise that this crisis has built up over many decades and that the Government have a duty to step forward and help to a degree, but we must recognise that…24 May 2021HANSARDSocial HousingMy Lords, the Affordable Housing Commission’s September report proposed a fund to support social housing landlords to acquire both existing private sector stock and new-build…24 May 2021HANSARDSocial HousingMy Lords, in the last 10 years we have built more affordable homes than in the previous 10. We have seen around 148,000 homes built specifically for social rent in the last…24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesMy Lords, I point out that our approach prioritises action on the risks of unsafe cladding, which is what accelerates fire. The costs for remediating this, and the risk posed by…24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesIt is not possible to make such assessments because it will depend on a professional fire risk assessment of individual buildings and the extent to which costs might be met by or…24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesMy Lords, the Government have now committed more than £5 billion to the remediation of unsafe cladding. That will ensure that remediating the most risky element of a building will…24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesMy Lords, I accept that leaseholders are victims and recognise the need to strengthen redress so that we can go after the people responsible for the shoddy workmanship. That is…24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesMy noble friend is right. We believe that developers should contribute and make buildings safe without passing the costs on to leaseholders. There have been a variety of…24 May 2021HANSARDSocial HousingMy Lords, of course I think that we have got our priorities right. We are focusing on building homes of all types and tenures. That includes affordable and social rent and,…24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesMy Lords, we are very clear that we expect building owners to make buildings safe and not to pass on costs to leaseholders where possible. We have provided a substantial sum of…24 May 2021HANSARDLeasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL]My Lords, first, I declare my residential and commercial property interests as set out in the register. This Bill will lead to fairer, more transparent home ownership for…24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesMy Lords, I have mentioned the provisions made by major developers, which run into many hundreds of millions. The Government have also instituted a proposal for the gateway 2…24 May 2021HANSARDSocial HousingMy Lords, we have set out a distinct part of the programme to deliver more social rented housing. We are looking to deliver some 32,000 units over the course of the programme.24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesMy Lords, obviously we take into account whether developers are good partners. There are many national schemes they will want to access for their businesses. We monitor very…24 May 2021HANSARDFire Safety: Leaseholder BankruptciesI thank the noble Lord for that creative idea. We will take it away and ponder it. In reality, we must recognise that the only three ways of helping leaseholders are by providing…24 May 2021