Mr. Maurice Deverell:

A lot of people are afraid of letting out because they cannot get their assets back. We know that from talking to people. What can the Government do? It can make it that it is not so impossible to get one's property back. It can change this idea of four tenancies being a large landlord. These are the stumbling blocks in the whole thing. If one buys an asset of any other asset class, one can get it back, but if one becomes a landlord, one immediately starts being limited by the legislation. That is the first thing, and the only thing that would encourage people like the Deputy's friend who have vacant properties to actually put them back-----