The Mirror has published the following:

Private landlords will be forced to bring their properties up to a set of national standards for the first time under plans to be unveiled in the government’s levelling-up strategy this week.

Michael Gove, the housing secretary, is reportedly set to announce legislation that will require landlords to upgrade around 800,000 properties that don’t meet requirements to be “safe, warm and in a good state of repair”.

The measures, set to be revealed on Wednesday, will be confirmed in the Chancellor’s Spending Review in March, according to The Times.

A new, mandatory renting register will also come into force, with landlords evicted from the official list if they break the new guidelines.

All tenants in the private rental sector would also gain a new right to redress for complaints about their homes.

The moves, long demanded by campaigners, will bring the private rental sector into line with minimum requirements on council and housing association properties.

Other measures being reviewed include tougher energy efficiency standards and a minimum standard of fixtures and fittings for furnished accommodation.

The target is to halve the number of below-standard rented homes by 2030.

Under current rules, social housing landlords are required by law to keep their properties in a decent state of repair and periodically update them, but there are no rules for the private sector.

Official figures suggest that 4.4million families rent their home from a private landlord, representing 19% of all households in England.

But the English Housing Survey in 2019 estimated that 23% of those did not meet the “decent home standards”; about 1.1million homes.

Private renters could separately be owed hundreds in refunds due to a cap on how much they can change in deposits