Housing: Private Rented Sector Debate

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Lord Morris of Aberavon

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Housing: Private Rented Sector

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Tuesday 23rd June 2015

(9 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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My Lords, I myself have been a private landlord of a house in multiple occupation and know that, if a landlord refuses to do something, the tenant can inform the council. The council can come out and insist that the landlord does the work. If the house is in such a state that it is not fit for occupancy, the landlord has to make provision for alternative accommodation for those tenants in the interim.

Lord Morris of Aberavon Portrait Lord Morris of Aberavon (Lab)
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My Lords, if I heard the term correctly, the Minister used the inappropriate term “welching”. Will she define it, please?

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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I did not mean it as a derogatory term to the Welsh.