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There is currently a strange disconnect in the Housing Act 2004, highlighted by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, where local authorities can introduce selective licensing schemes to address poor housing but cannot include conditions in the licence requiring the physical state of the licensed property to be improved. By contrast, additional licensing schemes for houses in multiple occupation can include such conditions. My new clause 17 simply seeks to close this hole by amending section 90 of the Housing Act to enable local authorities to use licensing conditions to improve housing standards.