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Private Rented Housing: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of current legal protections for victims of domestic abuse seeking to be released from joint tenancies in the private rent

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
11 Jun 2026
Answer
17 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of current legal protections for victims of domestic abuse seeking to be released from joint tenancies in the private rent

  2. 11 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 17 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Under the Renters’ Rights Act, all tenancies with a fixed term transitioned to periodic tenancies on 1 May 2026. As a result, victims of domestic abuse are no longer locked into fixed terms with perpetrators. The courts have established that any individua...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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