Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Oct. 18 2024

Source Page: Criteria for determining whether a building is a higher-risk building during the occupation phase of the new higher-risk regime
Document: Criteria for determining whether a building is a higher-risk building during the occupation phase of the new higher-risk regime (webpage)

Found: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Building Safety Regulator are currently

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Oct. 18 2024

Source Page: Criteria for determining whether a new building that is being designed and constructed is a "higher-risk building"
Document: Criteria for determining whether a new building that is being designed and constructed is a "higher-risk building" (webpage)

Found: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Building Safety Regulator are currently

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Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Oct. 18 2024

Source Page: Criteria for determining whether an existing building is a higher-risk building during building work
Document: Criteria for determining whether an existing building is a higher-risk building during building work (webpage)

Found: The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Building Safety Regulator are currently

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Written Question

Private Rented Housing: Standards

Friday 18th October 2024

Asked by: Kemi Badenoch (Conservative - North West Essex)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to ensure that a regulatory impact assessment for the Renters' Rights Bill will include an assessment of that Bill's (a) cumulative potential impact on and (b) potential interaction with the (i) changes to Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for the private renter sector announced on 23 September 2024 and (ii) technical detail of the Decent Homes Standard for the private rented sector.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The Government submitted the Impact Assessment for the Renters’ Rights Bill on 16 September 2024 to the Regulatory Policy Committee and we will publish it in due course. The Government has announced its intention to publish a consultation on increasing minimum energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector by the end of the year. Measures to set a decent home standard in the Private Rented Sector are included in the Renters’ Rights Bill and we have made clear we intend to consult on this. The impacts for private landlords will be considered in the respective Impact Assessments.

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Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Regulator of Social Housing

Oct. 17 2024

Source Page: Sector risk profile 2024
Document: (PDF)

Found: By landlord, we mean a registered provider of social housing, including local authorities and private

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Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Regulator of Social Housing

Oct. 17 2024

Source Page: Sector risk profile 2024
Document: Sector risk profile 2024 (webpage)

Found: By landlord, we mean a registered provider of social housing, including local authorities and private

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Written Question

Private Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights

Thursday 17th October 2024

Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing private rented sector tenants' protections and rights of redress against (a) landlords and (b) letting agencies under private rented sector deposit protection schemes.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) schemes play a vital role in protecting tenant deposits and providing free alternative dispute resolution, should a deposit dispute arise at the end of a tenancy. TDP providers are appointed as authorised schemes through government concession contracts.

My department is responsible for managing these contracts and monitoring schemes’ performance. The contracts are due to expire in 2026, and as part of the re-procurement we will be reviewing the current system and exploring what improvements can be made to ensure the best possible service for tenants and landlords.

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Written Question

Private Rented Housing: Rents

Thursday 17th October 2024

Asked by: Paula Barker (Labour - Liverpool Wavertree)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the role of letting agencies on trends in the level of rents in the private rented sector.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

The Government keeps trends in the Private Rented Sector under review, including the role of letting agents.

The English Private Landlord Survey 2021 asked landlords if they had increased their rent and, if so, what were their motivations for doing so. It found that 64% of landlords surveyed had not increased their rent in the last two years. Where landlords had increased the rent, the most common factor was to account for changes in market rents. 71% of landlords who had raised rents cited changes in market rents as an influencing factor. 34% of landlords who had raised the rent cited advice from an agent as influencing their decision.

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