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HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)It is always better to resolve issues without resorting to eviction, but we recognise that when tenants are committing antisocial behaviour and it is impacting on neighbours,…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for that reasonable question. He and many others in the House have significant concerns about the impact of excessive concentrations of short-term and…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I beg the indulgence of the Committee to spend a little time setting out the Government’s position on this schedule, because it is a key part of the Bill. As we have discussed,…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)Amendment 61 seeks to expand the discretionary antisocial behaviour ground to include behaviour “capable” of causing nuisance or annoyance. Members may recall that this was…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)As the shadow Minister has just made clear, amendment 59 seeks to introduce a new ground for possession into schedule 2 of the 1988 Act to allow landlords to evict tenants when…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for that intervention, and I understand the point he makes. If it is acceptable to him, I will write to him with the technical detail about what…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)As the shadow Minister just made clear, amendment 60 would introduce a new mandatory ground for possession—6ZA—into schedule 2 of the Housing Act 1988. It would allow landlords to…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 2, in schedule 1, page 157, leave out line 13. This allows Ground 1B to be used to obtain possession whenever the landlord intends to grant an assured…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her further contribution. I have weighed very carefully in the balance, and looking at the Bill in the round, whether a two-year protected period would…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I do not have much to add to what I have already said. I commend the clause to the Committee. Amendment 1 agreed to. Clause 4, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)Without the threat of arbitrary section 21 evictions, tenants will be evicted only when landlords have reasonable grounds for doing so. Clause 4 amends the grounds for possession…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 1, in clause 4, page 7, line 6, at end insert— “(5) After section 11 of the 1988 Act insert— ‘ 11A Possession on ground 6A: compensation of tenant (1) This…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I will consider that matter further. To be candid with the Committee, some judgments on provisions relating to student accommodation are finely balanced. We are trying to strike a…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)As the hon. Gentleman has just made clear, amendments 56 and 57 seek to reduce the notice period for the selling ground 1A from four months to two months. The Government believe…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I wish to provide further reassurance to the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington, because I fear that we are dancing on the head of a pin here. Under the provisions in the…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)While I appreciate the sentiments behind the amendments—indeed, as a shadow Minister, I probed the previous Government on this point when discussing the previous Bill—on…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Third sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for tabling these amendments, which allow us to have this debate. In my view—I think this is shared across the House —landlords must have robust and…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for that. I will undertake to provide him with more detail on the specific point he has made, which is noted and understood, either at an appropriate…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)The hon. Lady rightly challenges us on some of the finer points of how the provisions will be implemented. If she is amenable, I will happily write to her with further detail on…29 Oct 2024HANSARDRenters' Rights Bill (Fourth sitting)We have not considered extensively the range of prices in the Department’s discussions, but I am sure the market will respond. I do not see any particular concern that companies…29 Oct 2024