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Parliamentary Debates
Renters' Rights Bill (Second sitting) 152 speeches (31,772 words) Committee stage: 2nd sitting Tuesday 22nd October 2024 - Public Bill Committees Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Rachel Blake (LAB - Cities of London and Westminster) Giles Peaker: Tenants will have their existing rights under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act - Link to Speech
Short-term Lets: Regulation 58 speeches (12,849 words) Thursday 12th September 2024 - Westminster Hall Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Rachel Blake (LAB - Cities of London and Westminster) North—parts of which are now in my constituency—improved housing standards through the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act - Link to Speech
Economy, Welfare and Public Services 151 speeches (47,061 words) Monday 22nd July 2024 - Commons Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Rachel Blake (LAB - Cities of London and Westminster) Through her tireless casework for tens of thousands of constituents, and her Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Friday 24th October 2025 Written Evidence - Lyseon.Solutions Working Group, Lyseon.Solutions Working Group, Lyseon.Solutions Working Group, and Lyseon.Solutions Working Group ATJ0072 - Access to Justice Access to Justice - Justice Committee Found: 2015 legislation around revenge evictions and possibly in practical terms the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Thursday 23rd October 2025 Written Evidence - Lyseon.Solutions Working Group, Lyseon.Solutions Working Group, Lyseon.Solutions Working Group, and Lyseon.Solutions Working Group ATJ0072 - Access to Justice Access to Justice - Justice Committee Found: 2015 legislation around revenge evictions and possibly in practical terms the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Thursday 9th October 2025 Written Evidence - Reapit HCE0055 - Housing Conditions in England Housing Conditions in England - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: allows them to tackle privately rented properties that contain hazards, while the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Thursday 9th October 2025 Written Evidence - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government HCE0056 - Housing Conditions in England Housing Conditions in England - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 and Awaab’s Law, designed to empower tenants to raise
Wednesday 13th March 2024 Written Evidence - Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) CBE0119 - Children, young people and the built environment Children, young people and the built environment - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Found: The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, includes provisions to protect tenants in relation
Monday 12th February 2024 Government Response - UK Government response to Lords Horticultural Sector Committee report-Session 2022-23 Horticultural Sector Committee Found: standards legislation for the private rental sector, including the Housing Act 2004 and Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Written Answers
Private Rented Housing: Standards Asked by: Danny Beales (Labour - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) Tuesday 9th December 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure landlords let accommodation is fit for human habitation as set out in the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) If rented houses or flats are not fit for human habitation, tenants can take their landlords to court under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. The court can make the landlord carry out repairs and put right health and safety problems. The court can also make the landlord pay compensation to the tenant. The government is committed to ensuring that rented homes are safe, decent, warm, and free from damp and mould. The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 will extend Awaab’s Law to the private rented sector and introduce a Decent Homes Standard for privately rented homes for the first time. The Decent Homes Standard already applies to social housing. Enforcement in the social sector is being strengthened through the Social Housing Regulation Act, including through the implementation of Awaab’s Law, the first phase of which has already come into force.
Rented Housing: Mould Asked by: Rachel Gilmour (Liberal Democrat - Tiverton and Minehead) Wednesday 26th February 2025 Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to address the failures in remedial work to combat mould in rented properties, in the context of the associated health risks. Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government) The government is committed to ensuring that rented homes are safe, decent, warm, and free from damp and mould. The Deputy Prime Minister made a Written Ministerial Statement on 6 February (HCWS423) confirming that the government will bring Awaab’s Law into force for damp and mould in social housing in October this year. The Renters’ Rights Bill, which is currently progressing through the House of Lords, will apply Awaab’s Law to the private rented sector. Social housing tenants who have already reported a problem to their landlord about damp and mould and who are dissatisfied with the response can make a complaint to the Housing Ombudsman. Through the Renters’ Rights Bill, we are introducing a new Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman Service which will be mandatory for nearly all private landlords to join. In addition, all tenants who think their house or flat is in a seriously dangerous condition can take their landlords to court under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.

Written Answers

Private Rented Housing: Standards
Asked by: Danny Beales (Labour - Uxbridge and South Ruislip)
Tuesday 9th December 2025

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure landlords let accommodation is fit for human habitation as set out in the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

If rented houses or flats are not fit for human habitation, tenants can take their landlords to court under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.

The court can make the landlord carry out repairs and put right health and safety problems. The court can also make the landlord pay compensation to the tenant.

The government is committed to ensuring that rented homes are safe, decent, warm, and free from damp and mould.

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 will extend Awaab’s Law to the private rented sector and introduce a Decent Homes Standard for privately rented homes for the first time.

The Decent Homes Standard already applies to social housing. Enforcement in the social sector is being strengthened through the Social Housing Regulation Act, including through the implementation of Awaab’s Law, the first phase of which has already come into force.

Rented Housing: Mould
Asked by: Rachel Gilmour (Liberal Democrat - Tiverton and Minehead)
Wednesday 26th February 2025

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to address the failures in remedial work to combat mould in rented properties, in the context of the associated health risks.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The government is committed to ensuring that rented homes are safe, decent, warm, and free from damp and mould.

The Deputy Prime Minister made a Written Ministerial Statement on 6 February (HCWS423) confirming that the government will bring Awaab’s Law into force for damp and mould in social housing in October this year. The Renters’ Rights Bill, which is currently progressing through the House of Lords, will apply Awaab’s Law to the private rented sector.

Social housing tenants who have already reported a problem to their landlord about damp and mould and who are dissatisfied with the response can make a complaint to the Housing Ombudsman. Through the Renters’ Rights Bill, we are introducing a new Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman Service which will be mandatory for nearly all private landlords to join.

In addition, all tenants who think their house or flat is in a seriously dangerous condition can take their landlords to court under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.

Secondary Legislation
Assured Tenancies (Private Rented Sector) (Written Statement of Terms etc and Information Sheet) (England) Regulations 2026 These Regulations set out the tenancy terms and other information which landlords of relevant private rented sector assured tenancies in England (or their contractors, as the case may be) must include in the written statement they give to their tenants under section 16D of the Housing Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”) and the information they must give to their tenants under paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 6 to the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (“the 2025 Act”). Parliamentary Status - Text of Legislation - Made negative Laid: Friday 20th March - In Force: 1 May 2026 Found: the definition of “prescribed”. (16)Section 9A was inserted by section 1(3) of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Secondary Legislation

Assured Tenancies (Private Rented Sector) (Written Statement of Terms etc and Information Sheet) (England) Regulations 2026
These Regulations set out the tenancy terms and other information which landlords of relevant private rented sector assured tenancies in England (or their contractors, as the case may be) must include in the written statement they give to their tenants under section 16D of the Housing Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”) and the information they must give to their tenants under paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 6 to the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 (“the 2025 Act”).

Parliamentary Status - Text of Legislation - Made negative
Laid: Friday 20th March - In Force: 1 May 2026

Found: the definition of “prescribed”. (16)Section 9A was inserted by section 1(3) of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Parliamentary Research
Housing insecurity in the private rented sector in England: policy implications - POST-PN-0730 Sep. 18 2024 Found: • Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 : Require s landlords to ensure that homes are fit
Housing insecurity in the private rented sector in England: drivers and impacts - POST-PN-0729 Sep. 18 2024 Found: (EPC) rating below C has reduced from 79.9% in 2012 to 55.1% in 2022.i 4 The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Renters (Reform) Bill 2023-24: Progress of the Bill - CBP-10004 Apr. 18 2024 Found: not fit for human habitatio n, they can seek remedy through the courts under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Bill Documents
Nov. 22 2024 Impact Assessment from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government Renters’ Rights Act 2025 Impact Assessments Found: The previous government also introduced the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, which means
Oct. 29 2024 Written evidence submitted by iHOWZ (RRB31) Renters’ Rights Act 2025 Written evidence Found: Additional safeguards were introduced in the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 .
Apr. 18 2024 Research briefing on progress of the Bill Renters (Reform) Bill 2022-23 Briefing papers Found: not fit for human habitatio n, they can seek remedy through the courts under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

APPG Publications
Access to Justice APPG Wednesday 11th June 2025 Document: APPG on Legal Aid Bulletin - March 2023 Found: We note in particular the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.

APPG Publications

Access to Justice APPG
Wednesday 11th June 2025

Document: APPG on Legal Aid Bulletin - March 2023

Found: We note in particular the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.

Department Publications - Guidance
Friday 31st July 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Awaab's Law Phase 2: Hazards guidance for social landlords Document: (PDF) Found: The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 amended the Landlord and Tenant Act, inserting a new
Friday 31st July 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Awaab’s Law Phase 2: Guidance for social housing landlords Document: (PDF) Found: Regulations 2012 • The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 • Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Friday 31st July 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Awaab’s Law Phase 2: Guidance for social housing landlords Document: (PDF) Found: Regulations 2012 • The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 • Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Tuesday 23rd June 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS): Enforcement guidance Document: (PDF) Found: conditions including severe damp and mould (for example, by bringing a claim under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Wednesday 20th May 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Draft statutory Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) operating and enforcement guidance Document: (PDF) Found: conditions including severe damp and mould (for example, by bringing a claim under the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Department Publications - Policy paper
Monday 13th July 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Awaab’s Law Phase 2: Final stage impact assessment Document: (PDF) Found: hazards under the HHSRS; • the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 as amended by the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Monday 13th July 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Awaab’s Law Phase 2: Final stage impact assessment Document: (PDF) Found: hazards under the HHSRS; • the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 as amended by the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Friday 22nd November 2024 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Renters’ Rights Bill: Impact assessment Document: (PDF) Found: The previous government also introduced the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, which means

Department Publications - Statistics
Thursday 9th July 2026 Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Homes for Net Zero research programme Document: (PDF) Found: outlined in section 9A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 198541, an amendment via the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Thursday 21st March 2024 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: English Private Landlord Survey 2021: main report Document: English Private Landlord Survey 2021: main report (PDF) Found: Under The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 which came into force on the 20th March 2019

Department Publications - Consultations
Wednesday 2nd July 2025 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Consultation on a reformed Decent Homes Standard for social and privately rented homes Document: (PDF) Found: Additionally, the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 201864 sets requirements that rented homes
Wednesday 2nd July 2025 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: Consultation on a reformed Decent Homes Standard for social and privately rented homes Document: (PDF) Found: The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 sets requirements that rented homes must be free from

Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation
May. 15 2025 Planning Inspectorate Source Page: Section 62A Planning Application: S62A/2025/0104 4 The Mont, St Andrew's Road, Bristol, BS6 5ED Document: AST - 4 The Mont 1 Feb 2025 - 31 july 2025 (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Premises shall comply with the homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
May. 15 2025 Planning Inspectorate Source Page: Section 62A Planning Application: S62A/2025/0104 4 The Mont, St Andrew's Road, Bristol, BS6 5ED Document: AST - 4 The Mont 4 Feb 2024 to 31 July 2024 (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Premises shall comply with the homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
May. 15 2025 Planning Inspectorate Source Page: Section 62A Planning Application: S62A/2025/0104 4 The Mont, St Andrew's Road, Bristol, BS6 5ED Document: AST - 4 The Mont-01_08_2024-to-31_01_2025 (PDF) Guidance and Regulation Found: shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Premises shall comply with the homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics
Sep. 10 2024 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Source Page: English Private Landlord Survey 2021: main report Document: (PDF) Statistics Found: Under The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 which came into force on the 20th March 2019

Deposited Papers
Friday 27th March 2026 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: I. The ANUK/Unipol Code of Standards for larger developments for student accommodation NOT managed & controlled by educational establishments. Incl. annexes and appendices. 52p. II. Letter dated 20/03/2026 from Matthew Pennycook MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding a document for deposit in the House libraries. 1p. Document: Approved_ANUK-Unipol_Code_27_Feb_2026.pdf (PDF) Found: developments in accordance with the requirements of, and standards established in, the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act
Monday 30th June 2025 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Source Page: I. Consultation outcome. Awaab’s Law consultation: timescales for repairs in social housing. 29p. II. Government response to the call for evidence: Mandatory checks on electrical installations for leasehold properties within social housing blocks. 16p. III. Consultation outcome: Electrical safety in the social rented sector: proposals to extend regulations – government response. 29p. IV. Draft Statutory Instruments: a) The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) (Amendment) (Extension to the Social Rented Sector) Regulations 2025. 9p. b) The Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025. 17p. Document: Government_response-social_housing_electrical_safety.docx (webpage) Found: under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 because of amendments made to that Act by the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Deposited Papers

Friday 27th March 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Source Page: I. The ANUK/Unipol Code of Standards for larger developments for student accommodation NOT managed & controlled by educational establishments. Incl. annexes and appendices. 52p. II. Letter dated 20/03/2026 from Matthew Pennycook MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding a document for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: Approved_ANUK-Unipol_Code_27_Feb_2026.pdf (PDF)

Found: developments in accordance with the requirements of, and standards established in, the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Monday 30th June 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Source Page: I. Consultation outcome. Awaab’s Law consultation: timescales for repairs in social housing. 29p. II. Government response to the call for evidence: Mandatory checks on electrical installations for leasehold properties within social housing blocks. 16p. III. Consultation outcome: Electrical safety in the social rented sector: proposals to extend regulations – government response. 29p. IV. Draft Statutory Instruments: a) The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) (Amendment) (Extension to the Social Rented Sector) Regulations 2025. 9p. b) The Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025. 17p.
Document: Government_response-social_housing_electrical_safety.docx (webpage)

Found: under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 because of amendments made to that Act by the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act

Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 mentioned in Welsh results

Welsh Senedd Debates
4. Hazardous disrepair in social housing: Evidence session 3 Thursday 5th March 2026 Mentions: 1: None landlords already have to comply with the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act - Link to Speech