Rent Arrears: Covid-19 Debate
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Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
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Rent Arrears: Covid-19
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Lord Taylor of Goss Moor (LD) [V]
Given that the number of tenants in arrears on low incomes who have been impacted by Covid has more than doubled, have the Government conducted an impact assessment of the change to allow evictions once more? If so, will they make that available to Members of the House?
Lord Greenhalgh (Con)
My Lords, we continue to survey this very carefully indeed. As I pointed out, although we have seen an increase, according to the survey, in the number of renters in arrears, the vast majority of them—some two-thirds—have arrears of no greater than two months.