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Digital Status Right to Rent Impact Assessment

The Home Office is conducting an impact assessment on the digital status right to rent scheme, which enables landlords to verify tenants' immigration status digitally in the private rented sector. The policy aims to prevent unlawful discrimination while enforcing right to rent checks, with associated data protection impact assessments completed. Current status involves draft codes of practice for landlords and ongoing assessment of migration policy implications.

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13 Apr 2022 | Committee report linked

Many issues facing both landlords and tenants relate to other policy areas, such as housing benefits, tax laws and courts systems. There is therefore a need for cross-government working and data-sharing to understand the wider impacts of planned legislative changes on landlords and tenants.54 The Department told us that it has engaged with other areas of government, such as the Ministry of Justice and Department for Work and Pensions, during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, much of its cross-g...

Many issues facing both landlords and tenants relate to other policy areas, such as housing benefits, tax laws and courts systems. There is therefore a need for cross-government working and data-sharing to understand the wider impacts of planned legislative changes …

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12 Jun 2021 | Committee report linked

If the Government moves forward with any proposals to introduce such a system, despite the absence of a scientific case for doing so, a full Equalities Impact Assessment must be provided in good time and certainly in advance of any parliamentary vote on the legislation underpinning that system.

If the Government moves forward with any proposals to introduce such a system, despite the absence of a scientific case for doing so, a full Equalities Impact Assessment must be provided in good time and certainly in advance of any …

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