Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to protect tenants' monies in tenancy deposit schemes.

The Tenancy Deposit Protection legislation introduced by the Housing Act 2004 requires that where a deposit is paid in connection with an assured shorthold tenancy it must be protected by the landlord or agent in one of the three government-authorised schemes.

The Tenancy Deposit Schemes in England currently protect over 3.5 million deposits on behalf of tenants, helping to raise standards in the private rented sector and ensuring that tenants are treated fairly at the end of their tenancy.