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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 2 March (HL Deb, col 941) that London boroughs can already apply to the Secretary of State for consent to restrict short-term letting in a particular area where necessary, how many such applications from London boroughs have been received, and how many have been granted.

One application has been received. The application was not granted.

The London Borough which submitted the application was invited to re-submit the application with a more targeted approach to identify the problem properties from which it considered the right to short-term let should be suspended.