§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the amendments to the succession rules for existing private tenants which he proposes to make.
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§ Mr. Waldegrave[holding answer 16 November 1987]: The proposed amendments are as follows:
When an existing tenant with a regulated tenancy dies, a surviving spouse who was living with the tenant at the time of his or her death would be able to succeed to a regulated tenancy.Where there is no qualifying spouse, a member of the tenant's family who had been living with the tenant for five years before his or her death would be able to succeed to a new-style assured tenancy at a market rent.A second succession would be possible at the death of the first successor for a member of the original tenant's family who had lived with the first successor for five years before his or her death.The rights of any tenant who has already succeeded to a regulated tenancy would be unaffected.