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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to introduce an embargo on housing evictions of (a) tenants, (b) tenants in caravans and (c) tenants on caravan pitches on residential caravan sites during the January 2021 covid-19 lockdown.

The Government has extended existing legislation to ensure bailiffs in England do not serve eviction notices or carry out evictions except in the most serious circumstances, such as anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse perpetrators in the social sector. This legislation will be in place for at least six weeks before being reviewed, with consideration taken to the latest public health data. This will mean in practical terms that no evictions will be enforced until March.

The legislation applies in relation to tenants on residential caravan sites as well as in relation to tenants of bricks and mortar properties.