Clause 12 - Offence of leasing premises

Part of Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:00 pm on 29 October 2015.

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Photo of Keir Starmer Keir Starmer Shadow Minister (Home Office) 2:00, 29 October 2015

This intervention is simply to make sure that I understand what the Minister has just said. The Home Office is required to take into account children when it makes any of its decisions, and I understand that. However, does it follow from that that it would not serve a notice on a landlord if there were children in the family? The difficulty that amendment 89 is getting at is that once the landlord has the notice, the eviction process follows, so the only way in which the Home Secretary would be able to consider children would be by not serving a notice on the landlord. Is that what he means?