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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 April 2025

Debate

Renters’ Rights Bill

Contribution

Amendment 61 would remove a key protection for vulnerable tenants, which ensures that arrears accrued due to waits for universal credit do not count towards the mandatory eviction threshold in ground 8. If this amendment was accepted, in future a tenant who was waiting to receive a payment of universal credit to which they were entitled would be open to mandatory eviction. That cannot be the right position for us to take.

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