Anti-social Behaviour: Legal Remedies

Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 4 December 2025.

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Photo of Suella Braverman Suella Braverman Conservative, Fareham and Waterlooville

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that tenants and leaseholders have access to legal remedies if housing management companies fail to act on antisocial behaviour complaints.

Photo of Sarah Sackman Sarah Sackman The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice

When tenants commit anti-social behaviour (ASB) it can cause misery for housemates, neighbours, and the wider community. The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced specific measures designed to give victims and communities a say in the way that complaints of ASB are dealt with. As well as trying to resolve issues through housing management companies, depending on circumstances, tenants are able to contact their local authority or the police for support. It is also open for individuals to take legal action against the people behaving anti-socially and for an individual, or a freeholder to apply to the First-tier Residential Property Tribunal for forfeiture of the lease.

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