Housing and Planning Bill (Seventh sitting)

Chris Philp Excerpts

Tuesday 24th November 2015 Public Bill Committees

[Mr Thomas]

As my hon. Friend the Member for Easington said, surely this is, perhaps inadvertently, an opportunity to continue to name and shame rogue landlords who are guilty of poor practice. For prospective tenants who are looking for a new home to move into, looking at a register and being able to judge whether the person who owns the place that they are about to move into is a rogue landlord is a basic defence. The hon. Member for Peterborough, I believe, wanted to hear more about the rogue landlord Andreas Stavrou Antoniades. As I said, he illegally converted a house near Finsbury Park—

[Chris Philp (Croydon South) (Con)]

That is the third time the hon. Gentleman has mentioned that.