Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities written question – answered on 17 May 2023.
Stephen Timms
Chair, Work and Pensions Committee, Chair, Work and Pensions Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps he has help reduce the level of household overcrowding among UK households of (a) Bangladeshi and (b) Pakistani heritage.
Stephen Timms
Chair, Work and Pensions Committee, Chair, Work and Pensions Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the differential impacts of removing mandatory housing targets on households of different ethnic backgrounds.
Rachel Maclean
The Minister of State, Home Department, Minister of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Local authorities have a wide range of powers to require landlords to remedy serious hazards, including overcrowding, in privately rented homes, and our forthcoming reforms to the private rented sector will strengthen these powers.
We are carefully analysing the responses to the consultation, and any subsequent changes in policy will be confirmed when the Framework is updated in due course. The proposals in the consultation are not, at this time, government policy.
Yes0 people think so
No2 people think not
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