Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 64603
Social Rented Housing: Evictions
Tabled: 2 July 2025
Answered: 9 July 2025
Question
Perran Moon
Labour — Camborne and Redruth
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the level of risk of eviction of social housing tenants who remain in a property after a joint tenant has served notice to quit (a) in cases invol
Answer
Matthew PennycookJoint periodic tenancies can be ended unilaterally by one of the joint tenants.Once one of the joint tenants terminates a joint tenancy, then as a matter of law it ceases to exist and the landlord has a right of possession, though that may be challenged i...
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