It is due to return to the House of Commons for the report stage, which will give MPs the chance to discuss the amendments recently announced by housing secretary Michael Gove following the Awaab's Law campaign. MPs will debate the Bill before voting on whether to move it on to the next stage in Parliament.
Awaab died following prolonged exposure to mould at his family's home, on the Freehold estate. Social landlord Rochdale Boroughwide Housing knew of the issue for several months before he died, but failed to act. "I hark back to my previous life as a lawyer. I saw I don't know how many cases where I was representing people in rented accommodation who were putting up with damp and because we took action, the damp was abated for a bit, but nobody fixed the fundamentals and so we were back with other cases over and over again.