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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on the review on selective licensing of the private rented sector.

As previously stated, we delayed the start of the selective licensing review to enable the work to be informed by applications for a number of large scale schemes that were submitted during the second half of 2017. We are now in a position to begin the review and will do so shortly.