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Public Bill Committees
Renters (Reform) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) survey data tells us that the private rented sector is still increasing in size. - Speech Link
2: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) I suggest that something like that is more clearly made available to the private rented sector. - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) The beauty of the private rented sector is that it is built on that flexibility. - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) we would certainly seek to do with landlords in the private rented sector. - Speech Link
5: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) At the moment there are myriad redress schemes for deposits in the private rented sector. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) I would also point to the cost of living support that the Department for Education is providing for students - Speech Link
2: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Chancellor’s National Infrastructure Commission said that in order to unlock the billions of pounds of private - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Chancellor agree that pension funds could be a very important source of capital for developing social rented - Speech Link
4: John Baron (Con - Basildon and Billericay) the Financial Conduct Authority, will he consider supporting the First Reading of Baroness Altman’s private - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building an NHS Fit for the Future - Mon 13 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) communities like ours—by tackling the Airbnb crisis, the second homes crisis and the lack of social rented - Speech Link
2: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) rise in interest rates, the failure to tackle the private housing sector and the continuing giveaways - Speech Link
3: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) Private renters face relentlessly rising rents as they struggle to get on the housing ladder and live - Speech Link
4: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) , including social housing, to tackle problems in the private rented sector, and to reform leasehold. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Making Britain a Clean Energy Superpower - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) In my constituency, almost two thirds of households are owned as opposed to rented, but it is important - Speech Link
2: Barry Gardiner (Lab - Brent North) That will ensure that 2.4 million privately rented homes continue to be cold, damp and energy-inefficient - Speech Link
3: Anthony Mangnall (Con - Totnes) The more we can encourage businesses and students to take advantage of the opportunities in their areas - Speech Link
4: Kate Osborne (Lab - Jarrow) Their housing plans will not tackle the housing crisis, help renters or ban no-fault evictions. - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) rented sector, will cost people money. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 09 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I am not sure the question is one that the Government have asked.The private rented sector is one in - Speech Link
2: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) since the 1990s and before that I was a renter in the private rented sector up until my mid-30s. - Speech Link
3: Lord Carrington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) I therefore declare my own interests in the private rented sector, as set out in the register.As the - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) There are some appalling conditions in the private rented sector, which is not properly regulated. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) in privately rented cold, damp or mouldy homes. - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) rented sector, but it will remain legal for landlords to discriminate against tenants on benefits. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) There is a crisis in the private rented sector, a crisis for leaseholders—in fact, a crisis for most - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) We will therefore establish powers to transfer prisoners detained in England and Wales to rented prison - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) My grandson at Cardiff University tells me that the majority of his fellow law students all want to be - Speech Link
3: Lord Roberts of Llandudno (LD - Life peer) Similarly, the “Bibby Stockholm” barge, rented at £18 million a year to house 500 asylum seekers, has - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Federation and the Chartered Institute of Housing. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 23 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None before the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee on 10 July 2023, on Follow-up: Private rented - Speech Link
2: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) We need a healthy private rented sector. - Speech Link
3: Michael Gove (Con - Surrey Heath) We are not targeting registered providers of social housing while leaving the private rented sector off - Speech Link
4: Karen Buck (Lab - Westminster North) different housing markets within the private sector; the growth of the private rented sector for those - Speech Link
5: Mary Robinson (Con - Cheadle) the White Paper, “A fairer private rented sector”. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 17 Oct 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Matthew Pennycook (Lab - Greenwich and Woolwich) need and to make provision for sufficient social rented housing so that homelessness and the use of - Speech Link
2: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) , education, private sector investment, public spending and health. - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) That has impacted well over 100,000 students, with many being forced into e-learning at home. - Speech Link
4: None What matters is which parts of the country attract most of the private investment. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Conference Adjournment - Tue 19 Sep 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) I am encouraged that the council is looking to buy 140 houses for use as social rented properties and - Speech Link
2: Jack Lopresti (CON - Filton and Bradley Stoke) Some of that could well be funded by the private sector. - Speech Link
3: Scott Benton (IND - Blackpool South) There is an additional £40 million to relocate the court complex, allowing the largest single private-sector - Speech Link
4: Paul Bristow (CON - Peterborough) It also has family homes on Martinsbridge and Whitacre and socially rented homes on Henshaw and Whittington - Speech Link