Can a landlord ask for information from someone who's not on the tenancy agreement?

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If your tenancy agreement doesn’t require your landlord’s consent to a room being lived in by a *flatmate*, your landlord cannot ask for information about a flatmate as they are not on the tenancy agreement.
However, if your tenancy agreement limits the maximum amount of people who can live in the property, then it may be a condition of the tenancy that your landlord is informed of the flatmate’s identity before they consent to allow for the maximum number of occupants to increase.
If there is no maximum occupants listed on the tenancy agreement or if the flatmate will not exceed the maximum amount of people allowed, the information of flatmates is not relevant to the landlord.
This is because the landlord’s relationship is with those named on the tenancy agreement; because those named as tenants are responsible for the tenancy and this includes anyone else living with them.

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