Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Foster of Bath and Dan Jarvis

Monday 3rd June 2013 Commons Chamber

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Mr Don Foster)]

Yes, we will.

[Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) (Lab)]

T8. Following briefing that new legislation will require private landlords to check the immigration status of tenants, and a reported row between the Communities Secretary and the Prime Minister, in which the latter apparently turned puce, a Whitehall source said that the Government would just be targeting the regulation at high-risk areas. How would the Minister define a high-risk area of private renters?