Rushanara Ali:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government,
what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of statutory rights of
occupiers of social housing to succeed to a tenancy on the death of the
previous sole or joint tenant.
Mrs Heather
Wheeler: The Housing and Planning Act 2016 includes changes to the rules on
succession that deliver a consistent approach across all local authority
tenancies and ensure that common law partners are put on an equal footing with
married couples and civil partners. When in force, all spouses and partners
will have a statutory right to succeed to a lifetime tenancy. Local authorities
will be able to grant additional succession rights, and where they do so the
tenant will receive a five year fixed term tenancy.
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