PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Tenancy Agreements: Domestic Abuse (8 February 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to exempt victims of domestic abuse who move home to escape violence from the provisions on fixed term tenancies of the Housing and Planning Bill.

Asked by:
Jess Phillips (Labour)

Fixed term tenancies will enable local councils to review on-going need for a tenancy and, if this is still the case, to issue a new tenancy for the same or a more suitable home.

Where existing lifetime tenants transfer, the provisions in the Bill ensure that local authorities retain a discretion to offer the tenant a further lifetime tenancy in their new home.

Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
12 February 2016