Question follow-through · 672
Landlords: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to return landlord licensing powers to local authorities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Consultants · 21 Nov 2024
- Lobbying · 6 Dec 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to return landlord licensing powers to local authorities.
23 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2024
Answer published
Local housing authorities are able to introduce selective licensing of landlords in targeted areas to tackle specific problems, if the statutory requirements are met.Since 2015, new or renewed schemes which cover more than 20% of a local authority’s priva...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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