Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 900415

Private Rented Housing

Tabled: 9 June 2026
Answered: 15 June 2026
Named Day

Question

Joe Morris

Labour — Hexham

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to improve the private rented sector for tenants.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
On 1 May, we switched on the first phase of our transformative Renters’ Rights Act. Measures brought into force included the long overdue abolition of Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, a limit of one rent increase a year, new rights to challenge unreasonab...
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