Housing: Private Rented Sector

Lord Morris of Aberavon Excerpts

Tuesday 23rd June 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

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 (Lab)]

My Lords, if I heard the term correctly, the Minister used the inappropriate term “welching”. Will she define it, please?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

I did not mean it as a derogatory term to the Welsh.