All 1 Desmond Swayne contributions to the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018

Read Bill Ministerial Extracts

Wed 18th Oct 2017
Regulation of Property Agents
Commons Chamber

1st reading: House of Commons & 1st reading: House of Commons

Regulation of Property Agents Debate

Full Debate: Read Full Debate

Regulation of Property Agents

Desmond Swayne Excerpts
1st reading: House of Commons
Wednesday 18th October 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
Read Full debate Read Hansard Text
Lord Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
- Hansard - - - Excerpts

We have already made £12 million available to local authorities for enforcement since 2012. As I said in the statement, local authorities are able to levy penalties of up to £30,000 on rogue landlords and that money can be used for further enforcement.

Desmond Swayne Portrait Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)
- Hansard - -

I have an interest in the register. No matter how welcome the proposals, the Minister will agree that his proposals for vastly increasing the supply will be a much more effective defender of tenants’ interests.

Lord Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
- Hansard - - - Excerpts

As ever, my right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The measures will of course help, but at the end of the day we need to fix the broken housing market by building more homes.