Member

We recognise that effective enforcement against those who flout the rules is essential to the successful implementation of our reforms to the private rented sector. We are placing a statutory duty on local housing authorities to enforce the provisions of the Bill. We expect them to take a proactive approach to enforcement and to give this the priority it deserves. We are strengthening local authorities’ ability to enforce: for example, through the new investigatory powers we are providing through the Bill. We will fund the net additional costs that will fall on local authorities as a result of our reforms to help ensure that they have the resources they need to enforce. I therefore ask the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, not to press her amendment.