Member

I turn to Amendment 26 and add my thanks to those of the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, to the Renters’ Reform Coalition, which has done a huge amount of work on this Bill, for which I am grateful. While I appreciate the sentiment behind the noble Baroness’s amendment, which seeks to prevent abuse of the moving and selling grounds for possession, I do not think that this is the right approach. This amendment seeks to do two things. The first is to require landlords to submit further evidence demonstrating compliance with ground 1 or 1A, when possession has been granted, within 16 weeks. The second is to set what evidence the landlord would need to submit to the court, that evidence being the property’s occupancy status, the progress of any sale and a statement of truth signed by the landlord.