Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 16 July 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:44, 16 July 2019

Well, Llywydd, on the first point the Member makes, I will make sure that I have an investigation of that matter and then we'll make sure that the full facts are known to Members of the Assembly.

On the second point, he will know that we are now in a position to implement the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016, passed on this Assembly floor in 2016, and that will allow us to implement section 173 of that Act, thus abolishing section 21 no-fault evictions. The consultation that was launched last week will be part of our implementation plan. It will certainly make a difference to no-fault evictions here in Wales and we will monitor very carefully the implementation of the new law that we will introduce to see that it is doing everything that we want it to do. If there are further steps that we need to take beyond the law that was passed in this Assembly only three years ago, then, of course, we will look at that, but nobody should pretend that the steps that we are now committed to taking do not make a very substantial step forward in our determination that no-fault evictions should not be part of the private rented landscape here in Wales.