Draft Residential Tenancy (Jersey) Amendment Law 202- letter

Request 7197064​32​

The Housing Minister has written a letter dated 27 May 2025 to the Chair of the Environment, Housing, and Infrastructure Scrutiny Panel in response to their request for information on the economic rationale for the rent controls proposed in the Draft Residential Tenancy (Jersey) Amendment Law 202-. The letter can be found at

https://statesassembly.je/getmedia/3fcb90aa-3450-444a-8acb-afb138d1dd37/Letter-RTL-Response-to-Economic-Rationale-for-Rent-Cap-27-May-2025.pdf?ext=.pdf.​

This letter refers to a paper which explains the decision-making process for proposed rent stabilisation measures, but it does not attach that paper.

Please can the paper explaining the decision-making process be provided, or if not available, a detailed summary of this paper.

Response

The requested document is now publicly available on the States Assembly website and can be accessed via the link below. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied. 

RTL-Economic-Rationale-for-Rent-Cap-Rationale-Paper.pdf​

Article applied 

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.​