Question follow-through · 61067
Private Rented Housing: Rents
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a cap on private rents for residential properties.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a cap on private rents for residential properties.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
The government has been clear it does not support the introduction of rent controls, including rent stabilisation measures. We believe they could make life more difficult for private renters, both in terms of incentivising landlords to increase rents rout...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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