Question follow-through · 5219
Multiple Occupation: Private Rented Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) quality and (b) adequacy of the regulation of houses in multiple occupation in the private rented sector.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) quality and (b) adequacy of the regulation of houses in multiple occupation in the private rented sector.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Sept 2024
Answer published
Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) are subject to mandatory licensing in properties where five or more persons in two or more households share facilities. Local authorities also have the power to introduce additional licensing for smaller HMOs which are...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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