Housing (Scotland) Bill consultation: interim partial analysis
Analysis of responses to the first 15 questions from the consultation on the use of powers in the Housing (Scotland) Bill. A full report, which will also include analysis of the remaining questions, will be published when the full analysis is complete.
Consultation
Footnotes
1 A small number of blank responses (i.e. responses that had answered no questions and made no comments) were removed prior to the analysis.
2 Where permission to publish has been given, these responses will be made available on the Scottish Government’s website in due course.
3 Although this section draws only on comments made at Questions 16-31 regarding rent caps in rent control areas, many of the issues were also raised in relation to MMR and BtR properties and may also have been covered in the analysis of Questions 1-15.
4 It was not always clear whether respondents were referring to all tenancies in rent control areas or were calling for a universal system of rent controls.
5 However, as the parent of the subsidiary, the RSL is regulated by the SHR and is responsible for the subsidiary.
6 RSL parent bodies have responsibility and control over any subsidiary and must report (via an Intra Group Agreement) to the SHR.
7 The Housing (Scotland) Bill, as introduced, applies rent control provisions to PRTs only. As PBSA (and university owned halls of residence) are excluded from being PRTs, they were not included in the rent control provisions in the Bill. However, during its consideration of the Bill at Stage 2, the Committee agreed to amendments that would extend some elements of the rent control regimen to student tenancies. Although the amendments do not extend restrictions on rent increases to student tenancies, this has raised concerns that further changes may come forward that would do so.
8 RSL parent bodies have responsibility and control over any subsidiary and must report (via an Intra Group Agreement) to the SHR.