Government’s ‘fairer deal for renters’ won’t address high rents, housing minister says

Felicity Buchan, the government’s housing minister

The government's plan for a "fairer deal" for private renters will not address soaring rents, the housing minister has said.

Appearing at the Commons communities committee Tory MP Felicity Buchan said she believed rent rises could only be controlled by building more homes in the longer term.