On 8 September 2025 the House of Commons considered amendments made by the House of Lords to the Bill.
The Bill is one of the Government’s key manifesto commitments, initiating the most significant changes to the private rented sector for nearly 40 years, abolishing section 21 evictions and introducing a robust Decent Homes Standard in the sector for the first time. It will ensure private renters not only have access to a secure and decent home but that they can exercise their rights to challenge poor treatment and bad practice. Landlords should retain the confidence to repossess their properties where they have good reason to but with suitable safeguards for tenants who may lose their home.
The first Motion to disagree was the Lords Amendment 11 which would implement a pet damage deposit: Ayes 398, Noes 93.
Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 18, making an exception to the rule that landlords can’t relet or remarket a property for 12 months after evicting a tenant under grounds of wanting to sell the property: Ayes 402, Noes, 97.
Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 19, which would waive the prohibitions limiting shared ownership landlords who are evicting a tenant under grounds of wanting to sell the property from reletting or remarketing the property: Ayes 336, Noes 158.
Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 26, raising the burden of proof for fining a landlord from a civil to a criminal standard: Ayes 404, Noes 98.
Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 39, bringing Service Family Accommodation within scope of new Decent Homes Standard requirements and the existing hazard system: Ayes 325, Noes 171.
Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 53, removing the restriction from mandatory possession grounds which limits it to only students living in HMOs: Ayes 401, Noes 96.
Motion to disagree with Lords Amendment 64, inserting a new ground for possession for a property which is required for a carer for the landlord or landlord’s family: Ayes 335, Noes 160.
All the motions put forward by the Lords were rejected and the Bill now returns to the House of Lords for further consideration.
