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It was highlighted that Scottish tenants deserved to have the same protection as those in England and Wales and witnesses suggested that tenants of the same pub company currently have fewer rights in Scotland as there is no statutory pubs code.
Most landlords do not want to go through a constant cycle of losing good tenants who pay their rent, and most tenants want to be good tenants who are able to pay their rent and have somewhere that they can afford to live with some security.
The Regulations
The Cost of Living (Tenant) Protection (Scotland) Act 2022 gives the Scottish Ministers temporary power to cap rents for private and social tenants, as well as for student accommodation.
We have a number of sources of evidence. We can look at the number of visits to our website, as you said, but what is more important is what we hear when we engage with a variety of tenants’ organisations and with our own tenant panel of almost 500 tenants.