Renters’ Rights Bill will return to Parliament tomorrow for final approval
12:01 AM, 21st October 2025, 6 months ago
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The Renters’ Rights Bill will return to MPs in the Commons tomorrow (Wednesday 22 October) for final approval before Royal Assent.
The government has confirmed any outstanding issues of the bill will return to the Commons for consideration this week.
The news comes after despite last-minute attempts to add more amendments to the Bill, Peers in the House of Lords failed to make any changes to the legislation.
Receive Royal Assent as soon as possible
Once the Commons has agreed the final version, it can then go to Royal Assent and be signed into law by the King, which can happen almost immediately. However, the government has still not yet confirmed when the bill will become law.
Previously, Matthew Pennycook said the Renters’ Rights Bill will receive Royal Assent as soon as possible, but landlords and tenants will be given sufficient notice before the bill becomes law.
According to the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA), based on previous statements from the government, tenancy reforms are expected to be the first changes introduced on a given ‘commencement date,’ with other provisions, such as the introduction of an Ombudsman and a landlord database, coming later.
The NRLA adds that landlords should be given a minimum of six months to prepare for the changes.
Renters’ Rights Bill will have no major changes
As previously reported by Property118, the Renters’ Rights Bill will have no major changes before becoming law after Peers failed to make any amendments.
This means the abolition of Section 21 and fixed-term tenancies will still happen.
Landlords will no longer be able to unreasonably deny a tenant’s request to keep a pet, and Peers rejected an amendment to allow a separate pet damage deposit of up to three weeks’ rent on top of the usual deposit cap.
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fixed-term tenancies, pet damage deposit, renters rights bill, Section 21 Abolition, UK tenancy reform
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10:37 AM, 22nd October 2025, About 6 months ago
As said previously the abolition of section 21 will have great effect in the buying and selling sector this along with extra stamp duty will have big effect on governments revenue income and to reverse this midtake will take years to rectify by then there will be general election. We have repeatedly said the only tenant’s are crying for change are the bad tenants either socially or no will to succeed in life other than looking out for government to bail out in benefits. Local councils revenues are already suffering due to commercial shops currently closing with no hopes to reopen. If anything government should leave the rental system as running and make amendments to section 21 to make bad landlords and tenants responsible for thier own actions. Giving into few tenants demands will only encourage them to do as much damage as possible if they decide to become more difficult to deal with,a bad move?
Government instead of wasting time on amensements shiuld spend more time to liven encourage and support town centres shops and control of influx of people coming into the country. Cheaper labour may be good for employment purposes but it also put the uk generation out of work whom have spent or thier parents have paid enormous anount of universities fees. So the balance has to be found and why can’t goverment look into this and shape the country to be the best indtead of putting rental sector out of business.
Joe