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However, having listened carefully to the concerns expressed by a number of your Lordships, the Government have decided to put in place a proportionate safeguard for use in circumstances where it has become clear that the tribunal system is on course to be overwhelmed. This safeguard involves the creation of a new power that would enable the Secretary of State to make regulations to change the date from which tenants are required to pay a new rent in instances where the First-tier Tribunal has set one following a challenge to a proposed rent increase; in other words, it would enable the backdating of rent increases following determinations by the tribunal in respect of new rent amounts.