Private Rented Housing: Undocumented Migrants

(asked on 22nd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many calls they have received to their landlord helpline from landlords wanting to verify whether a tenant has the right to rent in the UK in the last year for which figures are available.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 9th January 2017

The landlord’s helpline does not verify whether a tenant has the right to rent. The helpline provides information to landlords on their responsibilities and signposts to the relevant guidance on GOV. UK.

The helpline has received 7806 calls of which 7738 (99.13%) were answered from 1st July 2015 to 30th June 2016.

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