Housing (Scotland) Bill: consultation

Chapter 4: next steps & timeframe

This consultation was launched on 23 April 2025 and will run until 18 July 2025. Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to develop and publish a final set of amendments to the Housing (Scotland) Bill, which will benefit from the input of a wide range of views and interests, including tenants.

Next steps:

The Housing (Scotland) Bill is currently progressing through the parliamentary process. Parliament has supported the general principles of the legislation at Stage 1 and the Stage 2 consideration is underway and will be complete by 29 May 2025. Subject to the view of Parliament, the Bill will then progress to Stage 3, with the exact timetable being set by Parliament.

Following this final stage of the parliamentary process, and subject to Royal Assent, the measures outlined in this consultation would be set out in regulations, which would also be subject to parliamentary approval.

This consultation has been brought forward during the parliamentary process so that the Scottish Government can give early consideration to the regulations required, with a view to bringing these forward at the earliest possible opportunity, in order to give clarity around the operation of the Bill.

Handling your response:

If you respond online, you will be directed to the ‘About You’ page before submitting your response. Please indicate how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are content for your response to published. If you ask for your response not to be published, we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.

All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

To find out how we handle your personal data, please see our privacy policy.

Next steps in the process:

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, and after we have checked that they contain no potentially defamatory material, responses will be made available to the public at Citizen Space. If you use the consultation hub to respond, you will receive a copy of your response via email.

Responses will be published where we have been given permission to do so. An analysis report will also be made available.

Comments and complaints:

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to the contact address above or email to: rentcontrolconsultation@gov.scot