Private Rented Housing: Databases
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of recording actual rents on the new Private Rented Sector Database.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
The Private Rented Sector Database will support local authority enforcement action, help landlords understand their legal obligations and give tenants the information they need to make informed choices before entering into a tenancy agreement.
We intend for the Database to collect information about landlords and whether their rental property complies with key health and safety information.
In addition to data about the ownership and standard of PRS properties, we are considering the feasibility and merits of recording a wider range of data, including rent levels.
We will stipulate the specific requirements in regulations.
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