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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 11 March 2025
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Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Thank you.

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Thank you very much, John. I will bring in Donryn Dewar in a minute, but we are starting to creep beyond my questions and to go into Willie Coffey’s, so I will bring in Willie to ask his questions on CPI plus 1 per cent, then Donryn can respond to whichever bit of the mix she wants.

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Donryn, please come in on whichever bit you want to come in on.

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Thank you.

With apologies for not going back to Willie Coffey, I will bring in Emma Roddick because she has to go somewhere else quite soon.

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Whichever was lower in what instance? Do you mean on an annual basis, at the very start or whatever?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Super—thanks very much.

I will bring in Meghan Gallacher in a moment. We have 25 minutes left in the agreed time slot. I have just checked with the clerk, and we can probably go over by around 15 minutes, which I hope is okay with the witnesses.

I want to dig into the wage connection that some of you have brought up, and then I will bring in Meghan on the quality aspects that you have started to talk about. I hope that our other questions might go quite quickly.

I am not asking you to look into a crystal ball on why the Government chose to link the cap to CPI rather than wage growth. Our report mentioned that Living Rent proposed linking the cap to wage inflation. Have you come across in your work any reasons why the Government chose CPI rather than linking to wages or, as Generation Rent proposes, choosing the lower of the two? Has anybody done that thinking?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Can I clarify something? You said that the ONS publishes rent data but that it is limited to data at the local authority level, making it difficult to design a rent-controlled area, and that we need more detail and more granularity. Is that what you are saying?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Great. A few people have indicated that they want to come in—Cameron Gillies, Timothy Douglas and Cedric Bucher. I have not seen anyone else indicate, so we will go with that and see whether anyone else needs to come in.

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Thanks for that. It is great to hear a differing opinion. Does anybody else want to answer that question?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee [Draft]

Housing (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Meeting date: 28 January 2025

Ariane Burgess

Thank you. I will go to John Boyle.