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Housing Bill consultation responses published
The 312 responses to a public consultation on the Scottish Government’s Housing (Scotland) Bill have now been published by the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee.
The consultation received responses from a range of organisations including Shelter Scotland, Citizens Advice Scotland, Homes for Scotland, the Scottish Association of Landlords, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, Living Rent as well as from a range of individuals, businesses, local authorities and other landlord and tenant stakeholder organisations.
Publication of the responses comes ahead of the Committee starting to take oral evidence on the Bill, with the Scottish Government Bill Team and Rent Service Scotland due to appear before the Committee this morning. The full agenda and papers for that meeting can be found here.
In the lead-up to the summer recess, the Committee is due to take further evidence from stakeholders on the Housing (Scotland) Bill on the 11th, 18th and 25th June before drafting a Stage 1 report in the Autumn.
The Scottish Housing News Podcast has been dissecting various elements of the Housing Bill with a four-part series culminating in an interview with housing minister Paul McLennan later this month. Catch up with the published episodes here.