Member

The Bill will make a substantial difference to the experience of disabled people in the private rented sector in relation to home adaptations. Abolishing Section 21 will give tenants greater confidence to request adaptations and challenge unreasonable refusals, while the PRS landlord ombudsman will offer a new route of redress for tenants that may be quicker, cheaper and less adversarial than the courts. Discussion of these matters during the passage of the Bill has prompted us to look at whether we can do even more to support disabled renters. As noble Lords may be aware, the Minister of State for Housing and Planning recently wrote to the MPs who tabled amendments on this issue in the other place to set out what further action the Government will be taking. I have sent out copies of that letter, but if anybody who wants one has not received one, I ask them to let me know.