Renters' Rights Bill: call for evidence
14 October 2024
Do you have relevant expertise and experience or a special interest in the Renters’ Rights Bill, which is currently passing through Parliament?
If so, you can submit your views in writing to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee which is going to consider this Bill.
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The Public Bill Committee is now able to receive written evidence. The sooner you send in your submission, the more time the Committee will have to take it into consideration. The Public Bill Committee will scrutinise the Bill line by line. The first sitting of the Public Bill Committee is expected to be on Tuesday 22 October and the Committee is scheduled to report by Thursday 28 November 2024. However, please note that when the Committee concludes its consideration of the Bill it is no longer able to receive written evidence and it can conclude earlier than the expected deadline of 5.00pm on Thursday 28 November 2024. You are strongly advised to submit your written evidence as soon as possible. |
Aims of the Bill
The Renters’ Rights Bill intends to:
- abolish assured shorthold tenancies, replacing them with periodic assured tenancies;
- abolish section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions;
- reform and expand the grounds for possession;
- limit rent increases to no more than once per year and place requirements on the service of notice;
- prohibit the practice of ‘rental bidding’;
- give tenants the right to request a pet;
- make it illegal for landlords to discriminate against tenants who receive benefits or who have children when letting their property;
- introduce a new ombudsman service for the private rented sector;
- create a new private rented sector database containing key information for landlords, tenants and local authorities;
- introduce a decent homes standard to the private rented sector and apply Awaab’s Lawto the sector;
- expand rent repayment orders, and strengthen local authorities’ enforcement powers.
Annex A of the bill’s explanatory notes (PDF) sets out the bill’s territorial extent and application in the United Kingdom.
Follow the progress of the Renters’ Rights Bill
The Renters’ Rights Bill [Bill 008 of 2024-25] was introduced in the House of Commons on 11 September 2024. The bill’s second reading was held on 9 October 2024.
- Bills before Parliament: Renters' Rights Bill
- Read Explanatory Notes: Renters' Rights Bill
- House of Commons Library Briefing Paper
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has published a guide to the Renters’ Rights Bill.
Oral evidence sessions are expected to be held on Tuesday 22 October.
Guidance on submitting written evidence
Deadline for written evidence submissions
The Public Bill Committee is now able to receive written evidence. The sooner you send in your submission, the more time the Committee will have to take it into consideration and possibly reflect it in an amendment. The order in which amendments are taken in Committee will be available in due course under Selection of Amendments on the Bill documents pages. Once the Committee has dealt with an amendment it will not revisit it.
The first sitting of the Public Bill Committee is expected to be on Tuesday 22 October and the Committee is scheduled to report by Thursday 28 November. However, please note that when the Committee concludes its consideration of the Bill it is no longer able to receive written evidence and it can conclude earlier than the expected deadline of 5.00pm on Thursday 28 November. You are strongly advised to submit your written evidence as soon as possible.
Your submission should be emailed to scrutiny@parliament.uk
Further guidance on submitting written evidence can be found here (pdf, 1MB).
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