United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 867
Almshouses: Tenants' Rights
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12 May 2021
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17 May 2021 · Answer
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to bring almshouse residents’ rights in line with tenants' rights.
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12 May 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to bring almshouse residents’ rights in line with tenants' rights.
Source: Commons
17 May 2021
Answer
The legal position of residents of almshouses is that they have a licence to occupy rather than a tenancy. This was decided in the case of Gray v Taylor (1998) in which the Court of Appeal held that the resident in that case occupied an almshouse as the b...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-05-12/867
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1313909
- uk · wq-1313909 · source updated 17 May 2021