Tenancy Deposit Schemes

(asked on 1st December 2014) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many deposit resolution scheme claims were resolved in favour of the (a) landlord and (b) tenant in the last 12 months.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 4th December 2014

On average between April 2013 and end of March 2014 42% of disputes were resolved in favour of the landlord and 58% in favour of the tenant. Detail for the individual schemes is provided in the table below:

SchemeTotal Number of disputes% in favour of Landlord% in favour ofTenant
Deposit Protection Scheme Custodial8,9454357
Deposit Protection Scheme Insurance125050
MyDeposits6,5903070
Tenancy Deposit Scheme9,4824951

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