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Commons Chamber
Substandard Housing - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) wheeze was to push the ownership of the houses to so-called associations that are, in effect, only private - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) For the private rented sector, the issue had been halved over the same timeline from 24% to 12%. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Intergenerational Week 2024 - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) I genuinely loved doing it.At a sheltered housing surgery in my constituency a few years ago, I met a - Speech Link
2: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Lots of older people are now living in precarious, poor-quality, private rented sector housing. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) Lady’s comments on housing. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) That would provide the same consumer protections as for social housing, with its social housing regulator - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) expanded to protect leaseholders and private tenants. - Speech Link
3: None In effect, they were subsidising a number of commercial units and private members’ clubs. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) The Federation of Private Residents’ Associations has asserted that there is no other area in the UK - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Youth Homelessness - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool, Wavertree) is still staying in hostel accommodation and is waiting until he can afford a room of his own in the private - Speech Link
2: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) I would say it is meaningful that we passed the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, which was a private - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Furnished Holiday Lettings: Taxation - Wed 01 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) Indeed, less than 2% of traditional short-term let businesses had previously rented their properties - Speech Link
2: Anne Marie Morris (Con - Newton Abbot) rented sector, which they wanted to leave and are leaving in droves. - Speech Link
3: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) rented sector, or will actively managed FHLs now face a more punitive tax regime than a passive private - Speech Link
4: Anne Marie Morris (Con - Newton Abbot) rented sector because of covenants on them? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Lincoln (Bshp - Bishops) Damp, low-quality accommodation, particularly in the private rented sector, has an impact felt particularly - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) From my perspective, housing waiting lists are so long, and the quality of so many homes in the private - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) allowance to the 30th percentile of local rents, benefiting 1.6 million private renters in 2024-25.Some - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) benefit 1.6 million private renters by an average of £800 per year.The noble Lord, Lord Bird, and the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None 50, insert the following new Clause— “Power to establish a Right to Manage regime for freeholders on private - Speech Link
2: None either have already in place, or will shortly have in place, measures that ensure that, in all forms of rented - Speech Link
3: None It would cost between £150 and £250; they are already being carried out around the country in rented - Speech Link
4: None recognise that there are a number of high-rise properties that have a mixture of tenure; there are some rented - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) rented sector by requiring PRS landlords to acquire an EICR at least every five years and to organise - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) The private rented sector is unsuitable or unaffordable for many, so doubling this sector’s size and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) social rented homes. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) We end up with families still relying on rented accommodation, provided more expensively by the private - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The average three-bedroom, private-rented home in my area costs £1,400 a month; that would mean almost - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) It is the Conservatives who have built 2.5 million new homes and are getting people on the housing ladder - Speech Link
2: Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con - Bridgwater and West Somerset) The chairman of the scrutiny committee has done a runner and slunk off to rented accommodation in Bampton - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Given that the next questions to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities are - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) Port through Ellesmere Port College and the Frank Field Education Trust.Can we please have a debate on private - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) the coalition Government, new measures were introduced to crack down on things such as clamping on private - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) , will also deal with private sector housing? - Speech Link
2: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) Proposed new clause 1 would scrap selective licensing schemes for private rented housing when the property - Speech Link
3: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) this issue must reflect the differences between the social and private rented sectors. - Speech Link