Call for evidence outcome

Commercial rents and COVID-19: call for evidence

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Published: 6 April 2021
• Last updated: 4 August 2021 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Call for evidence on commercial rents: responses and analysis

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Summary of responses and analysis of the call for evidence on commercial rent debts, which ran from 6 April to 4 May 2021.

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Original call for evidence

Summary

This supports the government’s decision to review measures on commercial lease evictions established by section 82 of the Coronavirus Act 2020.

This call for evidence was held on another website.

This call for evidence ran from
6 April 2021 to 11:45pm on 4 May 2021

Call for evidence description

This call for evidence will support the government’s decision making on the best way to withdraw or replace these measures while preserving tenant businesses and the millions of jobs that they support.

If there is evidence that productive discussions between landlords and tenants are not taking place, and that this represents a substantial and ongoing threat to jobs and livelihoods, the government will not hesitate to intervene further.

The measures which are the subject of this call for evidence are:

• the moratorium on commercial lease evictions established by section 82 of the Coronavirus Act 2020; and
• the restrictions on the use of Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) established by the Taking Control of Goods (Amendment)(Coronavirus) Regulations 2021

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Commercial rents and COVID-19: call for evidence

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Published 6 April 2021
Last updated 4 August 2021 + show all updates

1. 4 August 2021

   Added Summary of responses and analysis of the call for evidence on commercial rent debts.

2. 6 April 2021

   First published.