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The purpose of agenda item 5 is for the committee to consider the Scottish Government’s correspondence on the delegated power in section 30(2) of the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Bill, which allows the Scottish ministers to designate a “rent pressure zone”.
At our meeting on 8 March, the committee agreed that I would write to the Scottish Government on its behalf to outline its recommendation that the power should be subject to the provisional affirmative procedure rather than the negative procedure after a rent pressure zone has been designated. The committee also agreed that, pending the response from the Scottish Government, the convener could lodge an amendment to fulfil that recommendation.
Today, the Minister for Housing and Welfare has written to the committee to indicate that she proposes to lodge an amendment at stage 3 that will ensure that all regulations that are made under section 30 of the bill will be subject to the affirmative procedure. In light of that response, is the committee content with the proposed amendment to section 30 of the bill at stage 3?
I think that we have made very substantial progress on the matter, and I very much welcome the fact that the Government has lifted the idea of the negative procedure being used. I welcome what is to happen.
I endorse everything that Stewart Stevenson said. I welcome the Government taking the action that we sought, and I am very grateful to it for doing so.
It is clear that the committee is content with what is now proposed.
Meeting closed at 13:47.