Previously called Standing Committees, Public Bill Commitees study proposed legislation (Bills) in detail, debating each clause and reporting any amendments to the Commons for further debate.
There are at least 16 MPs on a Committee, and the proportion of parties reflects the House of Commons, so the government always has a majority.
[James Gray in the Chair]
Polly Neate, Dame Clare Moriarty and Darren Baxter gave evidence.
Ben Beadle, Timothy Douglas and Theresa Wallace gave evidence.
Paul Dennett and Richard Blakeway gave evidence.
[Yvonne Fovargue in the Chair]
Ben Twomey and Sue James gave evidence.
Francesca Albanese gave evidence.
Ian Fletcher gave evidence.
Kate Henderson gave evidence.
Dr Henry Dawson gave evidence.
Dr Julie Rugg and Professor Ken Gibb gave evidence.
Fiona Rutherford and Professor Christopher Hodges gave evidence.
James Prestwich gave evidence.
[Yvonne Fovargue in the Chair]
Judicaelle Hammond gave evidence.
Helen Gordon gave evidence.
Richard Miller and Nimrod Ben-Cnaan gave evidence.
Jacky Peacock gave evidence.
Jen Berezai gave evidence.
[James Gray in the Chair]
Simon Mullings, Giles Peaker and Liz Davies gave evidence.
Ben Leonard gave evidence.
Chloe Field gave evidence.
Samantha Stewart, Linda Cobb and Roz Spencer gave evidence.
James Munro gave evidence.
[James Gray in the Chair]
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move amendment 145, in clause 3, page 2, line 32, at end insert— “(aa) after subsection (5) insert— ‘(5ZA) The court shall not make an order for possession under...
[James Gray in the Chair]
Amendment proposed (this day): 138, in clause 3, page 3, line 3, at end insert— “(5C) (a) Where the court makes an order for possession on Grounds 1 or 1A in Schedule 2 to this Act...
Amendment proposed: 143, in schedule 1, page 65, line 10, leave out “6 months” and insert “2 years”.—(Matthew Pennycook.) Amendments 143 and 144 would prohibit...
[Ian Paisley in the Chair]
Amendment proposed ( 21 November): 180, in schedule 1, page 74, line 20, leave out “After Ground 8” and insert “Before Ground 9”.—(Matthew Pennycook.) This amendment...
I beg to move amendment 177, in clause 4, page 3, line 34, at the beginning insert— “(1) In section 8 of the 1988 Act, after subsection (2) insert— ‘(2A) A notice under...
I beg to move amendment 200, in clause 5, page 5, line 17, at end insert— “(4F) It shall be an implied term of every assured tenancy to which this section applies that percentage...
[Yvonne Fovargue in the Chair]
Amendment proposed (this day): 200, in clause 5, page 5, line 17, at end insert— “(4F) It shall be an implied term of every assured tenancy to which this section applies that...
Amendment proposed: 160, in clause 6, page 7, line 27, at end insert— “(7A) After subsection (8) insert— ‘(8A) Where a notice under section 13(2) has been referred to the...
I beg to move amendment 183, in clause 7, page 8, line 36, leave out “42nd” and insert “14th”. This amendment would ensure a landlord gives or refuses consent in writing...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move amendment 132, in clause 10, page 13, line 11, leave out “three” and insert “six”. This amendment would increase the time which must elapse between a...
I beg to move amendment 19, in clause 11, page 14, line 24, leave out “16E (inserted by section 10” and insert “16G (inserted by section (Landlords acting through...
Amendments made: 51, in clause 12, page 18, line 13, leave out “16I” and insert “16K”. This amendment is consequential on NC4 and NC5. It updates the new section numbering...
Amendments made: 55, in clause 13, page 21, line 32, leave out “16G” and insert “16I”. This amendment is consequential on NC4 and NC5. It updates the new section numbering...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
[James Gray in the Chair]
I beg to move amendment 170, in clause 19, page 24, line 29, after “only if” insert “both at the date of the service of the notice and the date of the hearing”. This...
Amendment made: 60, in schedule 2, page 77, line 13, at end insert— “7A In section 39 (statutory tenants: succession) omit subsection (7). 7B In section 45 (interpretation of Part 1),...
Amendment made: 61, in clause 22, page 28, line 4, at end insert— “(10) In this section and Schedule A1, ‘local housing authority’ means a district council, a county...
I beg to move amendment 173, in clause 23, page 31, line 29, at end insert— “(c) an agreement to which the Mobile Homes Act 1983 applies; or (d) any licence of a dwelling”. This...
I beg to move amendment 174, in clause 24, page 32, line 27, leave out “may” and insert “must”. This amendment would impose a duty on the government to require residential...
I beg to move amendment 165, in clause 26, page 36, line 21, leave out “£5,000” and insert “£30,000”. This amendment would increase the maximum financial penalty...
I beg to move amendment 65, in clause 27, page 38, line 23, leave out subsection (9). This amendment removes provision that is no longer needed as a result of NC19.
Amendment made: 66, in clause 29, page 39, line 4, leave out “in England”.—(Jacob Young.) This amendment leaves out words which have no legal effect because a “local...
Amendment made: 67, in clause 30, page 39, leave out lines 16 and 17.—(Jacob Young.) This amendment removes a definition which is redundant because the term that it defines is not used in...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move amendment 175, in clause 32, page 40, line 18, at end insert— “(ba) details, which may include copies, of all notices seeking possession served by the residential...
I beg to move amendment 202, in clause 34, page 41, line 33, at end insert— “(2A) The regulations must provide for information or documents to be provided relating to disputes and...
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
I beg to move amendment 195, in clause 43, page 48, line 32, at end insert— “(f) tenants and prospective tenants of a relevant property and all other properties linked to the unique...
I beg to move amendment 167, in clause 47, page 50, line 36, leave out “£5,000” and insert “£30,000”. This amendment would increase the maximum financial penalty...
Amendment made: 68, in clause 48, page 53, line 7, leave out subsection (10)—(Jacob Young.) This amendment removes provision that is no longer needed as a result of NC19.
Amendments made: 69, in clause 57, page 56, leave out lines 39 to 41. This amendment removes the definition of “local housing authority” for the purposes of Part 2 of the Bill. It is...
I beg to move amendment 71, in clause 52, page 55, line 5, after “section” insert “(Financial penalties),” This amendment provides for the provisions about financial...
Amendments made: 72, in schedule 3, page 78, line 8, after “section” insert “(Financial penalties),”. This amendment is consequential on Amendment 71. Amendment 73, in...
I beg to move amendment 76, in clause 58, page 57, line 35, after second “of” insert “, or an offence under,”. This amendment ensures that the duty in clause 58(1) does...
Amendments made: 83, in clause 59, page 58, line 16, after second “of” insert “, or an offence under,”. This amendment ensures that a local housing authority notifies...
Amendments made: 86, in clause 61, page 59, line 30, leave out “local housing” and insert “relevant local”. This amendment requires a lead enforcement authority to provide...
Amendments made: 92, in clause 62, page 61, line 1, leave out “local housing” and insert “relevant local”. This amendment requires a county council in England which is not...
(Afternoon)
Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
Amendments made: 97, in clause 54, page 55, line 15, leave out “(4), this Part” and insert “(4D), this Act”. This amendment provides for a default rule which will have the...
Amendments made: 100, in clause 55, page 55, line 36, leave out “this Part” and insert “Part 2 (and Part 3 so far as relating to Part 2)”. This amendment is consequential...
Amendments made: 102, in clause 56, page 56, line 18, leave out “Part” and insert “Act”. This amendment provides for the provisions about regulations in clause 56(1) to...
Amendment made: 107, in clause 64, page 61, line 30, after first “Act” insert— “‘local housing authority’ means a district council, a county council in England...
Amendments made: 108, in clause 65, page 62, line 1, at end insert— “(2A) The power to make regulations under this section includes power to make— (a) supplementary, incidental,...
I beg to move amendment 169, in clause 67, page 62, line 21, at end insert— “, save that section 2(b) comes into force on the day on which this Act is passed only to the extent that...
Amendments made: 117, in schedule 4, page 82, line 29, leave out “sections 9 and 11” and insert “sections (Duty of landlord and contractor to give statement of terms and other...
Amendments made: 126, in clause 68, page 63, line 33, at end insert— “(A1) The Welsh Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument make transitional or saving provision in...
“In the 1988 Act, in section 9A— (a) in subsection (2), after paragraph (c) insert— ‘(d) whether the person against whom the order is sought has co-operated with any...
“In the 1988 Act, after section 14ZB (inserted by section 6 of this Act) insert— ‘ (1) A person who paid rent in advance as a tenant under an assured tenancy is entitled to be...
“In the 1988 Act, after section 16C (inserted by section 7 of this Act) insert—
“In the 1988 Act, after section 16D (inserted by section ( ‘ (1) This section applies to an assured tenancy other than a tenancy of social housing (within the meaning of Part 2 of the...
“In the 1988 Act, after section 16F (inserted by section ( ‘ Nothing in section 16D or 16E prevents a landlord from fulfilling or contravening an obligation through another person...
“In section 6(6) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, in the definition of ‘material interest’— (a) for ‘or a’ substitute ‘, a’; (b) after...
“In section 209 of the Housing Act 1996 (interim accommodation in relation to which an assured tenancy will not normally arise), in subsection (1), after ‘190,’ insert...
“(1) A relevant person must not, in relation to a dwelling that is to be let on a relevant tenancy— (a) on the basis that a child would live with or visit a person at the dwelling if...
“(1) A relevant person must not, in relation to a dwelling that is to be let on a relevant tenancy— (a) on the basis that a person is a benefits claimant, prevent the person...
“(1) A local housing authority may impose a financial penalty under this subsection on a person if satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the person has breached a requirement...
“(1) A term of a relevant tenancy or regulated tenancy is of no effect so far as the term makes provision (however expressed) prohibiting the tenant from having a child live with or visit...
“(1) A term of a lease of premises that consist of or include a dwelling is of no effect so far as the term makes provision (however expressed) requiring a tenant under that or any inferior...
“(1) A term of a mortgage of premises that consist of or include a dwelling is of no effect so far as the term makes provision (however expressed) requiring the mortgagor to— (a)...
“(1) A term of a contract of insurance to which this section applies is of no effect so far as the term makes provision (however expressed) requiring the insured to— (a) prohibit a...
“The Secretary of State may by regulations amend this Chapter so as to make provision about tenancies of dwellings, in relation to persons of another description, corresponding, with or...
“Nothing in this Chapter prohibits taking a person’s income into account when considering whether that person would be able to afford to pay rent under a relevant...
“In this Chapter— ‘benefits claimant’ means a person who is entitled to payments under or by virtue of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 or the...
“In the Housing and Planning Act 2016, omit Part 3 (recovering abandoned premises under assured shorthold tenancies).”— This new clause repeals Part 3 of the Housing and...
“(1) The Housing and Planning Act 2016 is amended as follows. (2) In section 40 (introduction and key definitions), at the end of the table in subsection (3) insert— ‘8 Renters...
“(1) The Housing Act 2004 is amended as follows. (2) In section 1 (new system for assessing housing conditions and enforcing housing standards), after subsection (3) insert—...
“(1) The Housing and Planning Act 2016 is amended as follows. (2) In section 40, for subsections (1) and (2) substitute— ‘(1) This Chapter confers power on the First-tier...
“(1) A county council in England— (a) which is not a local housing authority, and (b) which proposes to take enforcement action in respect of a breach of, or an offence under, the...
“(1) A local housing authority, or a county council which is not a local housing authority, must report to the Secretary of State on the exercise of its functions under the landlord...
“(1) An officer of a local housing authority may, for purposes connected with any function of the authority under or by virtue of legislation set out in the list in subsection (3), give a...
“(1) Where an officer of a local housing authority reasonably suspects that there has been a breach of, or an offence under, the rented accommodation legislation, the officer may for a...
“(1) If a person fails to comply with a notice under section (Power to require information from any person), the local housing authority or an officer of the authority may make an...
“(1) In any criminal proceedings against a person who provides information in response to a notice under section ( (a) no evidence relating to the information may be adduced by or on behalf...
“(1) An officer of a local housing authority may, at any reasonable time, enter any premises in England if— (a) the officer reasonably believes the premises to be occupied by a...
“(1) If an officer of a local housing authority enters premises under section ( (a) produce evidence of the officer's identity and authority to that occupier or (if there is more than one)...
“(1) A justice of the peace may issue a warrant authorising an officer of a local housing authority who is named in the warrant to enter premises in England that are specified in the...
“(1) A warrant under section ( (2) A warrant under that section does not authorise entry into premises used wholly or mainly as residential accommodation. (3) A warrant under that section...
“(1) An officer of a local housing authority who has entered premises under section ( (a) require a relevant person occupying the premises, or anyone on the premises acting on behalf of...
“(1) An officer of a local housing authority who has entered premises under section ( (2) If one or more occupiers are on the premises, an officer seizing documents under this section must...
“(1) This section applies where any document seized by an officer of a local housing authority under this Chapter is detained by the officer or authority. (2) If a request for permission to...
“(1) Where documents are being detained as the result of the exercise of a power in this Chapter, a person with an interest in the documents may apply for an order requiring them to be...
“(1) A specially authorised officer of a local housing authority may enter premises in England at any reasonable time, if— (a) the officer reasonably suspects that the premises, or...
“(1) If an officer of a local housing authority enters premises under section ( (2) An officer need not comply with subsection (1) if it is not reasonably practicable to do so. (3)...
“A justice of the peace may issue a warrant authorising an officer of a local housing authority who is named in the warrant to enter premises in England that are specified in the warrant if...
“(1) A warrant under section ( (2) A warrant under that section ceases to have effect when the inspection of the premises has been completed. (3) An officer entering premises under a...
“A person who accompanies an officer of a local housing authority entering premises under, or under a warrant under, this Chapter— (a) has the same powers under this Chapter as the...
“(1) A person commits an offence if the person— (a) without reasonable excuse obstructs an officer of a local housing authority who is exercising or seeking to exercise in accordance...
“(1) In this Chapter— ‘document’ includes information recorded in any form; ‘give’— (a) in relation to a notice to an occupier of premises, includes...
“In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, at the end insert—
“(1) Section 212A of the Housing Act 2004 (tenancy deposit schemes: provision of information to local authorities) is amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3). (2) In subsection...
“(1) In section 235 of the Housing Act 2004 (power to require documents to be produced), in subsection (1)— (a) after paragraph (a) (but before the ‘or’ at the end)...
“In paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (duties and powers to which Schedule 5 applies), at the appropriate place insert—
“(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations made by statutory instrument make provision that is consequential on Part 1. (2) Regulations under this section may amend, repeal or revoke...
“(1) The Welsh language text of the Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw 2) is amended as follows. (2) In section 1, after subsection (2), insert— ‘(2A) Mae Rhan 2A...
8A Gwahardd gwahaniaethu yn ymwneud â phlant (1) Mae’n drosedd i berson perthnasol, mewn perthynas ag annedd sydd i fod yn destun contract meddiannaeth— (a) ar y sail y byddai...
“(1) The English language text of the Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 (anaw 2) is amended as follows. (2) In section 1, after subsection (2), insert— ‘(2A) Part 2A...
8A Prohibition of discrimination relating to children (1) It is an offence for a relevant person, in relation to a dwelling that is to be the subject of an occupation contract— (a) on the...
“(1) Deddf Rhentu Cartrefi (Ffioedd etc.) (Cymru) 2019 may be cited as Deddf Rhentu Cartrefi (Ffioedd, Gwahaniaethu etc.) (Cymru) 2019. (2) The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act 2019...
“Regulations under section 8C or 8J of the Renting Homes (Fees, Discrimination etc.) (Wales) Act 2019 (as inserted by this Act) may only make provision which would be within the legislative...
“(1) The Welsh language text of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1) is amended as follows. (2) In section 30, after paragraph (d) insert— ‘(da) mae’n gwahardd...
“(1) A covenant or agreement, whether contained in a lease to which this Act applies or in an agreement collateral to such a lease, is void in so far as it purports to exclude or limit the...
“(1) The Housing Act 1988 is amended as follows. (2) In Section 9 subsection (6)(a), after ‘Schedule 2 to this Act’ insert ‘, except for grounds 6A, 8 and...
“(1) In Section 40(3) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016, at end of table insert— 8 Housing Act 1988 Section 16D, 16E Duties on landlords and agents as regards information provision...
“(1) A landlord must not advertise or otherwise offer a tenancy of residential premises unless the amount of rent is stated in the advertisement or offer. (2) A letting agent acting on...
“(1) A landlord must not invite or encourage a prospective tenant or any other person to offer to pay an amount of rent for residential premises that exceeds the amount of rent stated as...
“(1) Section 10A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 is amended as follows. (2) Omit subsections (1)(b) and (6). (3) In subsection (7), omit the definitions of ‘low-cost home...
“The Secretary of State may, by regulation, specify behaviour which, for the purposes of Part 4, Equality Act 2010, shall be considered unlawful discrimination unless the contrary is...
“In Schedule 1 to the Tenant Fees Act 2019, after paragraph 1(8) insert— ‘(9) Where rent is payable in advance, the maximum that may be charged is equivalent to the amount...
“(1) The Housing Act 1988 is amended as follows. (2) In section 7 (Orders for possession)— (a) omit subsection 7(3); (b) in subsection 7(4), leave out “Part II” and insert...
1 The Housing Act 2004 is amended as follows. 2 (1) Section 1 (new system for assessing housing conditions and enforcing housing standards) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (3)(a), omit...
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