HC Deb 29 June 1965 vol 715 c40W
57. Mr. Lomas

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will seek to make it a legal offence for a landlord to fail to issue a rent book to a tenant.

Mr. Crossman

The law already requires the landlord, where the rent is payable weekly, to provide a rent book containing the landlord's name and address and, if the tenancy is subject to the Rent Acts or the Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946, a statement of the rent payable under those Acts. I know that the Milner Holland Committee found that in London 14 per cent. of weekly tenants had no rent book, but in my view the difficulty here is one of enforcement of the existing law.