Member

The long-term answer to this, of course, is the plan to build more social homes. Our Government are committed to doing that. We do not expect the Bill to destabilise the market, although we will continue to monitor that. In fact, the number of new properties coming on to the market in March this year is 11% ahead of the same period last year, and 18% overall on last year. All the landlords know this Bill is coming. If it was going to destabilise the market, I would have expected that to be going in the other direction.