Housing and Regeneration Bill
12:00 pm
Adam Sampson: A few years ago, Shelter, with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and some of the landlord bodies, put together a commission on the private rented sector, which concluded that, by changing the tax regime for private landlords to make being a private landlord a business as opposed to something different, there would be incentives for landlords that would allow them to accept greater regulation. There was a trade-off, which the landlords we talked to were willing to accept. We still think that that idea has considerable potential, but we want it to be approached sensitively and properly as a package, rather than rushing into one side without looking at the other.