The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022: report -1 October to 31 December 2023

Footnotes

1 2022 asp 10. Hereafter, all references to statutory provisions (i.e. ‘section’ or ‘Part’ numbers) relate to the Act unless otherwise specified.

2 Defined in the Act as the ‘permitted rate’

3 Section 9(6)(b) of the Act

4 A social media metric that measures the number of times a piece of content has been seen by users

5 A social media metric that refers to the number of individual users who have seen or interacted with a piece of content

6 Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022 - 2nd proposed extension: statement of reasons; see in particular Section 4 and Annex F.

7 Section 4. Updated Economic Context, at The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022: report to the Scottish Parliament - 1 June to 30 September 2023.

8 Scottish Government, Wealth in Scotland 2006-2020.

9 From YouGov online polling for Scottish Government. Total sample size was c.1,000 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 7-9 November 2023. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all adults in Scotland (aged 18+). Base size for private renters is 130. Data tables for all adults can be found at Public attitudes to cost of living and other topics: tracker - data tables.

10 This was part of a prompted list of potential concerns in the next 2-3 months.

11 Households who said they were either “struggling a little” OR “struggling somewhat” OR “struggling a lot”.

12 The proportions were 64% for private renters and 53% all tenures in November 2022.

13 Households who said they were “not managing very well” OR “having some financial difficulties” OR “in deep financial trouble”. This has increased very slightly for private renters since polling in November 2022 (which showed 25% among private renters compared to 21% for all tenures as a whole).

14 Either “to some extent” OR “to a large extent”.

15 The fuel poverty rate is estimated for the periods to which different Ofgem price caps apply.

16 Bank of England, Monetary Policy Report - November 2023; modal CPI forecast based on market interest rate expectations.

17 Data from ONS, Provisional CPIH and CPI-consistent inflation rate estimates for UK household groups: January to September 2023. The inflation rate for households whose income is in the second decile of equivalised income is used to represent low-income households, while the inflation rate for households in the ninth income decile is used to represent high-income households – this is in line with previous ONS practice. The gap between these two measures had reached 1.7 percentage points in January 2023.

18 Regular pay excludes bonuses; including bonuses, total pay rose by 7.2% in Aug-Oct 2023.

19 ONS, Average weekly earnings in Great Britain: September 2023.

20 Living standards are determined not only by earnings but also by other factors, such as sources of income other than earnings, all direct taxes paid by households level and mortgage interest payments.

21 See discussion in Chapter 3 of Scottish Fiscal Commission, Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts – December 2023.

22 UK Government, Autumn Statement 2023, published on 22 November 2023.

23 Scottish Government, Scottish Budget: 2024 to 2025, published on 19 December 2023.

24 Data sourced from Bank of England Statistical Database.

25 This is based on an analysis of Scottish Landlord Register data between January 2022 and August 2023.

26 How are Britons faring with rent and mortgages? | YouGov

27 The 47 is calculated assuming that all respondents to the survey answered this question.

28 Statistical information | Scottish Housing Regulator

29 Statistical information | Scottish Housing Regulator

30 See information on Charter Indicator 22 at Statistical information | Scottish Housing Regulator

31 Scottish Household Survey Annual Report Tables 2022

32 Scottish Government Statistical publication on Wealth in Scotland 2006-2020

33 Based on DWP StatXplore Tables for May 2023, compared with latest available rented stock figure