Social rented housing
This page highlights some of the current parliamentary material available on social rented housing. This includes select committee reports, briefing papers on current legislation and other subjects produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs.
Standard Notes
| 04.05.2012 | Squatting in residential premises |
| Squatting. By Wendy Wilson. SN/SP/355. This note outlines the legal remedies available to evict squatters from residential premises. |
| 30.04.2012 | EU migrants: entitlement to housing assistance (England) |
| This note gives an overview of EU migrants' entitlement to social housing in England and considers the question of whether these people 'jump the housing queue.' |
| 27.04.2012 | Succession rights and social housing |
| Succession rights and social housing. By Wendy Wilson. SN/SP/1998. This note explains the rights of people living in social housing to succeed to a tenancy when the tenant dies. |
| 20.04.2012 | The Household Benefit Cap |
| This note explains how the household benefit cap will operate and summarises reactions to it, including attempts to amend the benefit cap as the Welfare Reform Act progressed through Parliament. |
| 05.04.2012 | Paying Housing Benefit direct to tenants in social rented housing |
| This note explains the Government's intention that social housing tenants in receipt of assistance with their housing costs should take responsibility for passing this assistance to their landlords when Universal Credit is phased in from October 2013. |
Research Papers
| 08.06.2011 | Welfare Reform Bill: Committee Stage Report |
| This is an account of the House of Commons Committee Stage of the Welfare Reform Bill. It complements Research Papers 11/23 and 11/24, prepared for the Commons Second Reading debate. |
| 12.04.2011 | Localism Bill: Committee Stage Report |
| This paper covers the Commons Committee Stage of the Bill, and complements Research Papers 11/02 and 11/03, prepared for Second Reading. The Bill covers a wide range of topics in local government, planning, housing and the governance of London. It was not substantially amended in Committee, although there were some minor technical Government amendments. However, at several points, Ministers agreed to look again at certain issues and consider whether to introduce amendments at Report Stage. |
| 04.03.2011 | Welfare Reform Bill: reform of disability benefits, Housing Benefit, and other measures |
| This paper has been prepared for the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons. For information on the provision in the Bill relating to the introduction of Universal Credit, please see the complementary Library Research Paper, 11/24. Besides Universal Credit, the Bill proposes a number of other significant welfare reforms, including replacement of the current Disability Living Allowance, restriction of Housing Benefit entitlement to social housing tenants whose accommodation is larger than they need, time-limiting the payment of contributory Employment and Support Allowance to twelve months, and capping the total amount of benefit that can be claimed. |
| 11.01.2011 | Localism Bill: Planning and Housing |
| This paper covers three parts of the Bill:
Part 5 of the Bill will abolish regional planning, introduce a neighbourhood planning regime and abolish the Infrastructure Planning Commission.
Part 6 of the Bill will make significant changes to the way in which social housing is provided and will also repeal the legislation governing the provision of Home Information Packs (HIPs). This Part includes provisions that will enable the long awaited reform of council housing finance.
Part 7 of the Bill will make changes to housing and regeneration functions in London. It will abolish the London Development Agency and introduce a regime for Mayoral Development Corporations. Changes to Greater London Authority governance will allow the delegation of functions by Ministers to the Mayor. |
| 18.03.2008 | Housing and Regeneration Bill: Committee Stage Report |
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Early Day Motions
| 15.12.2011 | EASTLANDS HOMES AND CORRESPONDENCE |
| That this House deplores the failure of Eastlands Homes to reply, since September 2011, to correspondence from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to his constituent, ... |
| 22.11.2011 | RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY FOR SOCIAL HOUSING |
| That this House is concerned that social housing tenants are being denied savings of up to 180 per year on their energy bills as well as subsidised energy efficiency measures because ... |
| 12.05.2011 | FLEXIBLE TENANCIES |
| That this House deplores the decline in the number of new lettings made by local authorities and registered social landlords from 423,000 in 1996-97 to 264,000 in 2008-09; notes the ... |
| 01.02.2011 | SECURE TENANCIES, LEVELS OF RENT AND HOUSING BENEFITS |
| That this House is concerned that proposals for new fixed-term tenancies for council and housing association tenants, and up to 80 per cent. of market rents for new housing association ... |
| 04.11.2010 | HOUSING REVENUE ACCOUNT SUBSIDY SCHEME AND WALES |
| That this House notes the recently published report by the Bevan Foundation, entitled The Great Rent Robbery, which catalogues the failures of the Housing Revenue Account subsidy scheme ... |
