Henry Pryor

As LibDems announce a manifesto promise of helping some tenants with a loan for their rental deposit I'm talking to 'Peter Pan' of Radio 2 about the problems of rent deposits. We're joined by Hannah Williams, founder of RentalRaters.com. Is this a big issue? My research suggests that there are over 4m private tenants, the average rent deposit is £1008 and disputes between landlords and tenants only happens in under 1% of leases. The arbitration services find in favour of landlords around 50% of the time and the biggest problem which causes over half of all disputes is over the cleanliness of the property when the tenant moves out. Copyright BBC