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. • Important to recognise that rent regulation interacts with non-price regulations and too often economists/social scientists don’t take this into account. • General points from the reading of grey literature: 1) important to stress context, history and institutions within which rent control proposal to be enacted.
We move to questions, starting with Claire Baker. Good morning. You started to lay out the reasons for the change in the forecast for predicted social security spend, which has decreased quite dramatically from £2.1 billion to £1.2 billion, and you said that that was due largely to changes at UK Government level.
Rather than the expertise that sits on it being chosen by the Government, you believe that it is important to lay out the requirements in statute so that there is a clear path to people being represented on it.
Understandably, the Scottish Government wants to respect local autonomy, decision making and accountability, but that means that there is variation in what is done.
When I worked for HIAL, I can remember me and colleagues laying out our concerns. We would raise safety concerns and be told that it was a matter of opinion, so I left—I could not take it any more.
The decision whether someone can demonstrate “a genuine and sufficient link”, in line with EU rules, needs to take account of a range of factors. That is why there is no definition in the regulations.