Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

Neil Carmichael Excerpts
Tuesday 18th November 2014

(10 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Neil Carmichael Portrait Neil Carmichael (Stroud) (Con)
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If there is a market rent review in two years, will it be sufficiently rigorous to satisfy tenants?

Jo Swinson Portrait Jo Swinson
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I can give an assurance that the review will be rigorous and that, in response to it, there will not only be this power for the Secretary of State, but, if he finds that there is insufficient protection for tenants as a result of the parallel rent assessments and the system is not working as it should, a requirement for him to bring forward the market rent only option.