Member

At least in this House—I thank the Minister and her team for meeting the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, and me to discuss this—we were given two reasons to justify the 12-month punitive period. First, that it would prevent bad landlords from pretending to sell in order to evict a tenant so that they could re-let at a higher rent level. Secondly, that the six-month punitive period might be Section 21 by the backdoor. I will take these reasons briefly in turn.