Written questions

Rents: Appeals

Commons · Question 116835 · Tabled 2 Mar 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 9 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Gareth Bacon

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress his Department has made in undertaking a viability assessment for the use of (a) an alternative body and (b) a mechanism to make initial rent determinations in case

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 9 Mar 2026

Officials in my Department engage regularly with a range of stakeholders, including officials working in Rent Services Scotland. Subject to a final viability assessment, the government intends to establish an alternative body or mechanism to the First-tie...