Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's call for evidence of 18 October 2017, on protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market, what meetings he and Ministers in his Department have had with industry bodies on the letting and management industry since 1 January 2017.

My officials and I meet regularly with letting and managing agents and their representatives, including the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) and the Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA). A full list of all ministerial meetings with external bodies on departmental business is publicly available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dclg-ministerial-data/.