Chamber and committees

We will move on. This next bit may or may not be relevant to everybody. We have questions on the regulations under the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 and we thought that, rather than invite all or some of you back for a separate session, we would just do it while you are here.

Do you agree in principle that the Scottish Government needs to use its powers to amend the rent adjudication system to smooth the transition away from the rent cap? Do you agree with the proposed system in the regulations?

Before I bring in Marie McNair with another question, I have a question on the data. Are there processes in place by which we gather data that could easily be moved over to pull that information together? Are you aware of anything?

I see a nodding head—perhaps Gordon MacRae can say something on that point.

Did you say 50 per cent or 60 per cent?

Rather than a Scottish one—okay. Marie, do you want to come in with your question?

What about gas boiler checks?

Thanks very much for pointing us in a particular direction at the end of that conversation.

This has been a really good conversation, and we could probably have spent a couple more hours unpacking some of the bits and pieces that have been raised around the room and throughout the conversation. I really appreciate your giving your time for the discussion.

I will briefly suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to leave the room. Committee colleagues will then need to press on with some other bits and pieces.

The committee previously agreed to take the next three items in private, so as that was the final public item on our agenda, I close the public part of the meeting.

Good morning, and welcome to the seventh meeting in 2024 of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee. I remind all members and witnesses to ensure that their devices are on silent and that notifications are switched off. Stephanie Callaghan MSP will be joining the meeting online.

Agenda item 1 is to decide whether to take items 4 and 5 in private. Do members agree to do so?

Members indicated agreement.

It is good to have you here. I apologise, I have missed Stephanie Callaghan. I will have to work hard to remember that she is there.

I want to go into that a little bit more. In last week’s meeting, we heard that the vision is good but the issue is that there was not a plan for delivering it. I would be concerned about going back to the starting point and creating yet another vision and another plan. Can you say more about where you think we need to begin, and whether there is something useful in the vision that we could act on?