Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a housing ombudsman service for the private sector.

The Renters’ Rights Bill, currently before Parliament, will introduce a new Private Rented Sector Landlord Ombudsman service to provide quick, fair, impartial and binding resolutions for tenants’ complaints about their landlord. This will bring tenant-landlord complaint resolution on par with established redress practices in social housing and across the property agent sector.