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  Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill -  Clause 1 - Duty to Grant Old-Style Secure Tenancies: Victims of Domestic Abuse
  
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  MPs were considering the Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 2, page 1, line 25, at end insertâ
  
  :â(2BA) A local housing authority which grants an old-style secure tenancy under subsection (2A) or (2B) has discretion to decide whether or not the maximum rent for the old-style secure tenancy should be determined according to [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111525784/regulation/5 regulation B13 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/213) as amended by the Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/ 3040)].â
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have resulted in the additional subsection being added to Clause 1 of the Bill[2]. The Bill sought to amend Section 81B of the Housing Act 1985, [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/22/schedule/7/paragraph/4 Section 81B was added via Schedule 7, Paragraph 4 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016]. Section 81A generally abolished new permanent secure tenancies, Section 81B set out circumstances in which old-style secure tenancies may be granted. 
  
  Without the amendment the Bill sought to ensure[3]:
  
  : lifetime tenants of social homes who are victims of domestic abuse are granted a further lifetime tenancy where a) they either need to leave or have left their home to escape domestic abuse and are being re-housed by a local authority, or (b) where they are a joint tenant and wish to remain a tenant of their social home after the perpetrator has left or been removed and the local authority decides to grant them a further sole tenancy in their current home.
  
  During the debate prior to the vote the intent of the amendment was explained
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  :Amendment 2 would ensure that victims of domestic abuse do not have to pay extra charges as a result of the bedroom tax if they are provided with a secure tenancy that incorporates a spare room.
  
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  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/securetenanciesvictimsofdomesticabuse.html Parliament's webpage on the Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill]
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0183/cbill_2017-20190183_en_2.htm#l1g1 Clause 1 of the Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0183/en/18183en02.htm Explanatory notes to the Secure Tenancies (Victims of Domestic Abuse) Bill. Overview section.]
  * [4] [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2018-05-08b.569.2#g573.1 Melanie Onn MP, (Great Grimsby, Labour), House of Commons, Official Record, 8 May 2018]
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