The Renter’s Rights Bill to increase consumer security in the private rental market yesterday passed the third reading in the House of Commons and will receive further scrutiny in the House of Lords.

Housing Minister, Matthew Pennycook, said the bill will “modernise the regulation of our country’s insecure and unjust private rented sector, levelling decisively the playing field between landlord and tenant” and “allow us to crack down on the minority of unscrupulous landlords who exploit, mistreat, or discriminate against renters.”