Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to meet the demand for longer tenancies for private tenants.

The Government is committed to protecting the rights of tenants and giving them more security.

We have published a model tenancy agreement which landlords and tenants can use as the basis for longer, family friendly tenancies, available for free at www.gov.uk/government/publications/model-agreement-for-a-shorthold-assured-tenancy. And the measures announced in the Housing White Paper resulted in many of the largest build to rent operators offering their tenants the option of longer tenancies.

We recently consulted on ways to overcome the barriers to landlords offering longer tenancies in the wider private rented sector and proposed a new longer tenancy model with a minimum of three years. We are currently analysing responses.