Question follow-through · 6381

Private Rented Housing: Evictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to issue hardship tests in the private rented sector before landlords can evict tenants.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

About this written question

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Answering body: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled: 4 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 9 Oct 2024
Answer: 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Recorded timeline

4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to issue hardship tests in the private rented sector before landlords can evict tenants.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
There are currently no plans to introduce hardship tests relating to eviction of tenants, outside of the existing ’undue hardship’ test in the Housing Act 1988.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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