Member

Amendment 16 works with the other amendments in this group to expand ground 5C. Specifically, it would expand the types of people that a tenant worker could be evicted in order to house from a current or future employee in the definition we have now to include future workers and self-employed persons. Expanding the types of people a tenant can be evicted in order to house detracts from one of the main purposes of the Bill: ridding the private rented sector in England of chronic insecurity. We have thought long and hard about where it is right to allow tenants to be evicted through no fault of their own, and then we have created grounds where we think this is reasonable. I am not of the view that this meets that bar.