Chamber and committees

Thank you. Does anyone else want to come in on the question of what we need to monitor to understand the impact? We will start with John Blackwood.

I see that Emma Saunders wants to come back in. Please be brief.

Thanks very much for that. I put the same question to John Blackwood. Do you think that the emergency legislation is required, given the housing and economic context that we are in?

Thank you. We move on to Mark Griffin.

Thanks, Miles. We move on to questions from Marie McNair.

Thank you, everybody. We have reached the end of our time. I hope that you were able to convey to us everything that you wanted to convey.

I suspend the meeting for five minutes to allow for a change of witnesses.

Thanks for that.

I will go into some detail about the rent freeze. One concern that came up with the earlier panel was the fact that rents can increase between tenancies. The bill does not affect rent increases between tenancies. I would be interested to hear your thinking about that. How do we protect tenants who might need to move between tenancies? That might affect students, but it applies to other situations too.

We agreed at the start of the meeting to take the final two items on our agenda in private. As we have no more public business today, I close the public part of the meeting.

John Kerr and John Blackwood want to come in and then we will need to move on.