Housing and Regeneration Bill

I thank the Minister for her response to this group of amendments. My first amendment, Amendment No. 109ZA, is about leaving out, "““complaints by tenants against landlords””," and inserting, "““differences between landlords and tenants””," but I have a feeling that the Minister misunderstood what I was saying. I was much more inferring that it must be a two-way passage there. It is not just the tenant’s complaint against the landlord, but what about the landlord’s complaint against the tenant? The amendment as drafted left open which way it went. I think that the Minister may have misunderstood that. My second amendment, Amendment No. 109ZB, proposes removing ““or control””. I think it is my fault but I did not understand what the Minister was saying. We are proposing the amendment because we do not think that the tenant ought to control the management. If you have a management in the business, it ought to do it. If it has it wrong then provide the ability to get rid of it or change it. But you cannot have all the tenants trying to control the management. That is the point of the amendment. I think the Minister was going on a slightly different interpretation of the word control and that that led to the misunderstanding. As for our third amendment, Amendment No. 109ZC, I totally take the Minister’s point about the shared environment, referring back to subsection (1). As it is, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 109ZB and 109ZC not moved.] [Amendment No. 109ZCA, in substitution for Amendment No. 110ZA, not moved.] [Amendments Nos. 109ZD to 110ZA not moved.]