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Lords Chamber
People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Thu 16 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) a disabled member much less likely to be owner-occupiers and much more likely to be renting in the private - Speech Link
2: Lord Shinkwin (Con - Life peer) sector level 2 organisations, than in non-Disability Confident organisations. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) sector, and with challenging conditions and costs in social housing. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Our Renters (Reform) Bill, abolishing no-fault evictions and creating a new ombudsman for the private - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 15 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) That is why the Bill allows for a new private rented sector landlord ombudsman. - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) Let us take a quick look at the private rented sector today. - Speech Link
3: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) rented sector, so I have seen the private rented sector from both sides of the fence. - Speech Link
4: Lord Marlesford (Con - Life peer) Housing supply in the private rented sector depends on adequate rents. - Speech Link
5: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) an increase in the private rented sector, as many speakers have covered. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Criminal Justice Bill
Report stage (day 1) - Wed 15 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) The Government agree that not all prisoners will be appropriate for transfer to rented prisons overseas—indeed - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) Unlike the prison officers, neither private security staff nor receiving court staff are equipped with - Speech Link
3: None It is also unfair that directors in the small business sector face the vast brunt of prosecutorial and - Speech Link
4: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) The prison space that Belgium rented in Holland was very close by—in some cases, it was literally up - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Home Insulation - Tue 14 May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) What actions have the Government taken to improve the energy efficiency of homes in the private rented - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) The noble Lord is also right to point out that the private rented sector is one of the most difficult - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Substandard Housing - Mon 13 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: George Galloway (WPB - Rochdale) wheeze was to push the ownership of the houses to so-called associations that are, in effect, only private - Speech Link
2: Lee Rowley (Con - North East Derbyshire) For the private rented sector, the issue had been halved over the same timeline from 24% to 12%. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Intergenerational Week 2024 - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) There can be silos in organisations’ decision making, particularly in the public sector; I do not know - Speech Link
2: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Lots of older people are now living in precarious, poor-quality, private rented sector housing. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
Committee stage - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The construction sector gamed the system. - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) sector lettings, so would be covered. - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) expanded to protect leaseholders and private tenants. - Speech Link
4: None In effect, they were subsidising a number of commercial units and private members’ clubs. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Youth Homelessness - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool, Wavertree) is still staying in hostel accommodation and is waiting until he can afford a room of his own in the private - Speech Link
2: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) I would say it is meaningful that we passed the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, which was a private - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Furnished Holiday Lettings: Taxation - Wed 01 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Anne Marie Morris (Con - Newton Abbot) rented sector, which they wanted to leave and are leaving in droves. - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) rented sector, so as to justify the harm that it will cause to tens of thousands of small and microbusinesses - Speech Link
3: Anne Marie Morris (Con - Newton Abbot) rented sector because of covenants on them? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Child Poverty - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Lincoln (Bshp - Bishops) Damp, low-quality accommodation, particularly in the private rented sector, has an impact felt particularly - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LD - Life peer) From my perspective, housing waiting lists are so long, and the quality of so many homes in the private - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and raised the local housing allowance to the 30th percentile of local rents, benefiting 1.6 million private - Speech Link