Current status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 11 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider strengthening provisions within the Housing (Scotland) Bill to support prospective tenants in addition to those with existing tenancies.
The Bill provides a number of rights for existing tenants and only some would relate to availability of housing which will be the main concern of prospective tenants.
The rights created in the Bill mainly apply to those who have a tenancy and there is a clear difficulty in extending those rights to prospective tenants as those rights could then apply to anyone with an interest in renting a property even if they may never take up a tenancy of the property.