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HANSARDRenters' 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 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 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)If the hon. Lady will give way, I can address that point.31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)Let me develop this point; then the hon. Lady is more than welcome to come back on it. Even if the loss of 20% of the £7,000 were covered by an increased fine, there are good…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)On the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for North West Cambridgeshire, it is conventional to put the amount of the fine on the face of the Bill. There are provisions in the…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)Let me address that group of questions, which are well understood and well made. I will respond to each in turn. I think the shadow Minister may have got the clause wrong, because…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)If I have understood correctly, the hon. Gentleman is challenging me on the burden of proof. I will say two things: first, who is the actor in charge of enforcement? It is for…31 Oct 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 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)First, what research has the hon. Lady done on the administrative burden on local authorities of subdividing the amounts of money they take in through breaches to give that 20%?…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I simply asked why the hon. Lady thinks the process set out in the Bill will require huge amounts of tenant energy and time to see the enforcement process through. As I said,…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I might pre-empt the shadow Minister by saying that in the written correspondence to which I have just committed, I will give him the same set of answers on the consolidated fund…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I will be brief on this group of clauses, which simply provide for rental discrimination powers and prohibitions in Wales that mirror those in England, with minor adjustments made…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 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for those questions. There is a simple answer to the first: yes, it requires a legislative consent motion on the part of the Senedd to bring the…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for those well-made questions. This is a specific problem that we are trying to target, and the majority of landlords do not engage in rental bidding.…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)One of the key objectives of the Bill is to give tenants greater security in their homes. It is imperative that landlords cannot evict their tenants without a valid ground for…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)The private rented sector has lagged behind other housing tenures when it comes to access to redress. For example, tenants in social housing have long been able to escalate…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I am more than happy to write to the shadow Minister to clarify that. If I have understood him properly, there are certain issues that we think are the landlord’s responsibility,…31 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Sixth sitting)I will say two quick things. I remember probing the previous Minister about this issue during the debate on the previous Government’s Bill, because I thought it was worth teasing…31 Oct 2024