Updates on housing related Bills before Parliament
Updated 08.10.21
This briefly summarises the key objectives of housing-related Bills currently before Parliament and provides links to follow their progress to date.
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Asylum Seekers (Accommodation Eviction Procedures) Bill
To make provision for asylum seekers to challenge the proportionality of a proposed eviction from accommodation before an independent court or tribunal; to establish asylum seeker accommodation eviction procedures for public authorities; and for connected purposes.
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To make provision about the safety of people in or about buildings and the standard of buildings; to amend the Architects Act 1997; to amend provision about complaints made to a housing ombudsman.
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Caravan Site Licensing (Exemptions of Motor Homes) Bill
To exempt motor homes from caravan site licensing requirements; and for connected purposes.
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To amend the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 to remove planning permission requirements for caravan site licence applicants; and for connected purposes.
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Domestic Premises (Energy Performance) Bill
To require the Secretary of State to ensure that domestic properties have a minimum energy performance rating of C on an Energy Performance Certificate; to make provision regarding performance and insulation of new heating systems in existing properties; and for connected purposes.
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Domestic Premises (Minimum Energy Performance) Bill
To require the Secretary of State to ensure that domestic properties have a minimum energy performance rating of C on an Energy Performance Certificate; to give the Secretary of State powers to require persons to take action in pursuance of that duty; and for connected purposes.
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Evictions (Universal Credit Claimants) Bill 2019-21
To place a duty on the Secretary of State to prevent the evictions of Universal Credit claimants in rent arrears; and for connected purposes.
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Fire and Building Safety (Public Inquiry) Bill
To establish an independent public inquiry into the Government's response to concerns about fire and building safety.
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Homeless People (Current Accounts) Bill
To require banks to provide current accounts for homeless people seeking work; and for connected purposes.
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Houses in Multiple Occupation Bill 2019-21
To amend the law relating to the licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation; to increase penalties for the contravention of such licences; and for connected purposes.
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Housing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill
To amend Part 3 of the Housing Act 2004 to provide that any selective licensing scheme for residential accommodation extends to social housing.
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Housing and Homelessness (Local Accommodation Duty) Bill
To place a duty on local authorities to ensure that persons for whom a homeless duty has been accepted are accommodated in the local area, including on discharge into private rented accommodation; to require local authorities to publish annual reports on steps relating to housing demand and supply taken or intended to be taken to meet that duty; and for connected purposes.
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Housing Standards (Refugees and Asylum Seekers) Bill
To make provision for national minimum standards in accommodation offered to refugees and asylum seekers; and for connected purposes.
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Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill
To make provision about the rent payable under long leases of dwellings; and for connected purposes.
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Mobile Homes and Park Homes Bill
To require the use of published criteria to determine whether mobile homes and park homes are liable for council tax or non-domestic rates; to make provision in relation to the residential status of such homes; to amend the Mobile Home Acts; and for connected purposes..
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Mobile Homes Act 1983 (Amendment) Bill 2019-21
To amend the Mobile Homes Act 1983; and for connected purposes.
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To amend the Housing Act 1988 to abolish assured shorthold tenancies; to extend the grounds upon which landlords of residential housing may recover possession; and for connected purposes.
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Sublet Property (Offences) Bill
To make the breach of certain rules relating to sub-letting rented accommodation a criminal offence; to make provision for criminal sanctions in respect of unauthorised sub-letting; and for connected purposes.
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To require developers to disclose for planning purposes an intention to use a building for supported housing or other accommodation that is specified for the purposes of Universal Credit and Housing Benefit; to establish a suitability test for accommodation proposed for such use; to make provision about the fitness of persons to be landlords or managers of supported or other specified accommodation; and for connected purposes.
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Supported Housing (Regulation) Bill
To regulate supported housing; to make provision about local authority oversight and the enforcement of standards of accommodation and support in supported housing; to prohibit the placing of children in care in unregulated accommodation; and for connected purposes.
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Under-occupancy Penalty (Report) Bill
To require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the merits of repealing those provisions of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 which provide for persons to be paid reduced rates of housing benefit or Universal Credit because their accommodation is deemed to be under-occupied.
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To repeal the Vagrancy Act 1824.
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