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SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS

Tuesday 8 May 2018

Report Stage Proceedings

Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse)

Bill [Lords]

Glossary

This document shows the fate of each clause, schedule, amendment and new clause.

The following terms are used:

Agreed to: agreed without a vote.

Agreed to on division: agreed following a vote.

Negatived: rejected without a vote.

Negatived on division: rejected following a vote.

Not called: debated in a group of amendments, but not put to a decision.

Not moved: not debated or put to a decision.

Question proposed: debate underway but not concluded.

Withdrawn after debate: moved and debated but then withdrawn, so not put to a decision.

Not selected: not chosen for debate by the Speaker.

Melanie Onn

Withdrawn after debate  NC1

To move the following Clause—

“Duty to review cooperation between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern

Ireland

(1)    

By the end of the period of six months, beginning with the day on which this Act

is passed, the Secretary of State must publish a review into the potential for future

cooperation between local authorities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern

Ireland in relation to the provisions of this Act.

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(2)    

The review under subsection (1) must consider how it may be possible to extend

the provisions of the Act to ensure that applications for secure tenancies in cases

of domestic abuse—

(a)    

from Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland may be considered by local

authorities in England;

(b)    

from England, Scotland or Northern Ireland may be considered by local

authorities in Wales;

(c)    

from England, Wales or Northern Ireland may be considered by local

authorities in Scotland; and

(d)    

from England, Wales or Scotland may be considered by local authorities

in Northern Ireland.

(3)    

The review must be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

(4)    

In this section, “local authority” means—

(a)    

in relation to England, the council of a district, county or London

borough, the Common Council of the City of London and the Council of

the Isles of Scilly;

(b)    

in relation to Wales, the council of a county or county borough;

(c)    

in relation to Scotland, the council of a district or city;

(d)    

in relation to Northern Ireland, the council of a district, borough or city.”

Melanie Onn

Not called  1

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  9,  after “tenant)” insert “and regardless of whether the

qualifying tenancy is in the jurisdiction of another local authority”

Melanie Onn

Negatived on division  2

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  25,  at end insert—

“(2BA)    

A local housing authority which grants an old-style secure tenancy under

subsection (2A) or (2B) has discretion to decide whether or not the maximum rent

for the old-style secure tenancy should be determined according to regulation B13

of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/213) as amended by the

Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/3040).”

Melanie Onn

Not called  3

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  25,  at end insert—

“(2BA)    

A private registered provider of social housing or a housing trust which is a

charity that grants a tenancy of a dwelling house in England must grant an old-

style secure tenancy if—

(a)    

the tenancy is offered to a person who is or was a tenant of some other

dwelling-house under a qualifying tenancy (whether as the sole tenant or

as a joint tenant); and

(b)    

the provider is satisfied that—

(i)    

the person or a member of the person’s household is or has been

a victim of the domestic abuse carried out by another person; and

(ii)    

the new tenancy is granted for reasons connected with that abuse

and such a private registered provider of social housing or

housing trust which is a charity shall be considered a person who

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satisfies the landlord condition under section 80 for the purpose

of granting an old-style secure tenancy in accordance with this

subsection.”

Bill read the third time, and passed.