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Private Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

Question for Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

UIN HL6708, tabled on 21 March 2023

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that landlords undertake the necessary repairs to their properties when problems are identified by their tenants.

Answered on

31 March 2023

The Government has set a mission to halve the number of non-decent rented homes by 2030.

The Social Housing (Regulation) Bill currently in parliament will introduce measures to improve the quality of social housing, including a new, proactive consumer regulation regime. Recent amendments to the Bill introduced 'Awaab's Law', which will introduce new requirements for social landlords to address hazards in the home within a fixed time period.

Our forthcoming reforms to private renting will improve conditions more broadly for properties in the sector.