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HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)That is a very reasonable question. If the hon. Member will allow me, I will come back to him via written correspondence. In drafting the clause— I am raking my memory for our…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I hope that the hon. Lady will appreciate that I cannot, as a Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Minister, give her that commitment in Committee today, but we…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to continue our proceedings with you in the Chair, Mr Betts. We now turn to clauses 84 to 86, which deal with access to the data collected on the database and the…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I will begin by addressing clauses 100 and 101, and I will then turn to amendment 41, which was tabled by the hon. Member for Bristol Central. Clauses 100 and 101 make provision…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)Unless the hon. Gentleman is pressing his amendment simply to make a political point, I ask him gently: what outcomes are we seeking? He wants to bring MOD accommodation up to the…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for that question. To reassure him, any access to restricted information that is not displayed publicly through the database must be shown to…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)Let me, hopefully, bring the exchanges on this matter to a close. I have taken away from this a very valid point. Under the provisions in the clause, if landlords correct a matter…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)Clauses 91 to 94 deal with the power to direct the database operator, amendments to the Housing and Planning Act 2016, provisions for joint landlords and the interpretation of…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for posing that question. I am confident that the provisions are comprehensive enough to deal with those sorts of eventualities. I think we will…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Seventh sitting)I will respond briefly, partly because a number of the issues raised are outside my ministerial responsibility. I commit to replying in writing to the points raised in relation to…05 Nov 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his two reasonable questions; I will come on to answer them both in my remarks. If he feels that I have not sufficiently explained the matter, I am…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I will respond briefly because I have set out in some detail the Government’s view on the matter. If I can say so politely, there were a huge number of assumptions in there. There…31 Oct 2024HANSARDHousing and Regeneration: LondonSince the construction of Britain’s first inter-city rail link between London and Birmingham, Euston has been not just a bustling London neighbourhood but a gateway to the west…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I turn to the private rented sector database provisions. Clauses 73 to 83 and clause 87 set the framework for establishing a database and the functions required for its operation…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful for the opportunity to provide some clarification, particularly on selective licensing, because I know that is a source of interest to many Members. The Government…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I will indeed respond to that specific point in the extensive future correspondence that I expect to have with the shadow Minister, given his form in previous sittings. Having…31 Oct 2024HANSARDGreater CambridgeI am today updating the House on the next steps the Government intend to take, in collaboration with local partners, to support ambitious and high-quality sustainable growth in…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)Can I make a further point, which I have made before but is clearly not registering? This is where we need to take a step back and look at which different parts of the Bill do…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I understand that point and will get the shadow Minister a precise answer in writing. It is important for the Committee and the public to have clarity on precisely all the ways in…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)It is an absolute pleasure—I genuinely mean that—to continue our proceedings with you in the Chair, Mrs Harris. The clause will end the unfair practice of pitting renters against…31 Oct 2024