Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 9 January (HL3406), where prospective tenants who are denied access to the private rented sector under the right to rent scheme are housed pending their deportation or voluntary departure.

Individuals who are complying with the Home Office as part of the voluntary returns process may be granted permission to rent ahead of their departure.

People who are denied access to the private rented sector are expected to return home. Advice and support is available to help people with no right to be here return to their home countries.

It is open to people to make temporary living arrangements which are not covered by the Right to Rent scheme ahead of their return home, in hotel accommodation.