Member

Amendment 82 seeks to allow landlords of relevant low-cost tenancies, when using Section 13A, to increase the rent on the same day each year. This amendment would apply to rent increases where the tenant has already challenged the previous year’s rent increase at the First-tier Tribunal. As I set out in response to a previous group, our reforms will mean that landlords can increase the rent only once per year, which this amendment would interfere with, and we also expect that most landlords of relevant low-cost tenancies will seek to continue to use rent review clauses. As such, in most cases, rents for such tenancies will be raised annually in accordance with an agreed contractual term. Tenants will not therefore be able to challenge increases.