Question follow-through · 15245
Private Rented Housing: Rents
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to prohibit a landlord from (a) demanding and (b) accepting more than one month’s rent in advance in respect of a (i) tenancy and (ii) licence of r
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to prohibit a landlord from (a) demanding and (b) accepting more than one month’s rent in advance in respect of a (i) tenancy and (ii) licence of r
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
The government recognise that demands for extortionate rent in advance place a considerable financial strain on tenants and can exclude certain groups from renting altogether.We are very clear that the practice of landlords demanding large amounts of rent...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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