Barry Sheerman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2015-09-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of giving tenants in the private rental sector the right to end a tenancy with their full deposits if they discover that the landlord has been convicted of a housing offence.

Brandon Lewis

A tenancy agreement is a contract between a landlord and tenant. If the conditions of the agreement are breached the affected party will normally have the right to end that contract; any tenant deposit due to be returned will be repaid through the normal procedures. We do not have any plans to alter this arrangement.