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 improve the private rented sector for tenants.

On 1 May, we switched on the first phase of our transformative Renters’ Rights Act.

Measures brought into force included the long overdue abolition of Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, a limit of one rent increase a year, new rights to challenge unreasonable rent hikes and a ban on rental bidding wars.

The Act’s remaining provisions will be brought into force in two further phases, with the rollout of the Private Rented Sector Database beginning later this year.