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I am also wary of inadvertently incentivising landlords to raise rents each year to the level of a cap, when they may otherwise not have done so. The most recent data from the English Private Landlord Survey, published in December last year, tells us that 44% of landlords who renewed or extended a tenancy did not increase the rent when they extended that tenancy. There is a risk that in setting a cap we may, albeit inadvertently, be setting a target for this group of landlords and making things harder for renters.