Member

I thank the noble Baroness for her amendment, which I recognise is a development of the proposal put forward by her colleague in the other place. I assure the noble Baroness that I hear the concern she raises about the level of rents in this country. I am not going to take up any more of the Committee’s time, at this hour, by going through the action that the Government are already taking, but in this Bill alone we are strengthening the role of the tribunal, and ending the practice of rental bidding and demands for rent in advance. I will also not repeat the arguments against rent controls.