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Item 3 concerns our dear friends, houses in multiple occupation. The Scottish Executive has now issued its consultation on possible changes to exemptions for the licensing of HMO schemes. We have been asked to consider our approach. One option is to seek written evidence, which means that we would have to consider which organisations we wished to consult. We should note that the closing date for responses is the end of July and we would need to consider our draft response at the first meeting after the summer recess. Are people content with that?
Do we agree to consult the organisations on the list with which we have been provided? The organisations are: local authorities, the Abbeyfield Society for Scotland, Scottish Women's Aid, Shelter Scotland, the Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, the National Union of Students, the University of Glasgow, the Scottish Association of Landlords, the Property Managers Association of Scotland and the private sector housing forum.
We now move into private session, as items 4 and 5 both involve consideration of draft responses.
Meeting continued in private until 12:34.