Undocumented Migrants: Private Rented Housing

(asked on 12th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referral notices were issued to landlords or agents as part of the right to rent scheme between (a) 1 December 2014 to 31 January 2016 and (b) since 1 February 2016.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 10th January 2017

The following table contains the figures from 1 December 2014 to 31 January 2016, and from 1 February 2016 to 30 November 2016. We are not able to report on part months.

The Right to Rent scheme was rolled out in parts of the West Midlands on 1 December 2014 and to the rest of England on 1 February 2016. Civil penalty referral notices are served where the Home Office finds evidence to suggest there has been a breach of the Right to Rent scheme. Not all Referral Notices result in civil penalties, as some recipients are able to demonstrate that they carried out the checks correctly, or that they are not the liable party. The scheme is not retrospective, so does not apply to tenancies which were in place before the scheme came into effect.

Table 1 - Number Referral notices issued to landlords or agents as part of the right to rent scheme between (a) 1 December 2014 to 31 January 2016 and (b) 1 February 2016 to 30 November 2016.

Period

Notices issued

01/12/2014-31/01/2016

39

01/02/2016 - 30/11/2016

152

Notes

1. This data shows the number of referral notices issued to Landlords part of the right to rent scheme between the specified period as recorded on National Operations Database (NOD).

2. These statistics have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.

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