Member

Furthermore, the ability of the tribunal to make judgments regarding unfair rent increases has existed since the Housing Act 1988. The Government have full confidence in the tribunal’s ability to carry out this function in a fair and reasonable way, including the reforms to this function laid out in the Bill. The Government will continue to monitor the impacts of these reforms on the tribunal to ensure that they can continue to work effectively—I set out our position on that earlier this afternoon. Given that this is ongoing work, we do not think a commitment to do so in the Bill is necessary. This proposed review would provide no new perspective beyond that already considered in our ongoing collaboration, and requiring the tribunal itself to partake in such a review would conflict with its ongoing work, including the preparations it currently has under way to make sure that it is ready for these much-needed reforms.