Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what right to rent checks landlords will be required to carry out on EU citizens during the period between March 2019 and December 2020 in the event of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.

Landlords are already expected to conduct right to rent checks on EU citizens before the start of a tenancy, as they do with all prospective tenants. EU citizens may demonstrate their right to rent using a range of specified documentation, including their national passports or identity cards.

These current arrangements will continue for the entire duration of the planned implementation period. In the unlikely event that we reach March 2019 without a deal, the Government has been clear that landlords will not be expected to differentiate between EU citizens who arrived in the UK before or after March 2019.