Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether landlords will be required to distinguish between EU citizens who arrived in the UK (a) before March 2019 and (b) during the transition period between March 2019 and December 2020 to check a person's right to rent.

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.