Law Commission consultation on business tenancies: modernising security of tenure

Closes 16 Sep 2026

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Privacy Notice

Under data protection legislation, the Law Commission is required to state the lawful bases for processing personal data. The Commission has a statutory function, stated in the Law Commissions Act 1965, to receive and consider any proposals for the reform of the law which may be made or referred to us. This need to consult widely requires us to process personal data in order for us to meet our statutory functions as well as to perform a task, namely reform of the law, which is in the public interest. We therefore rely on the following lawful bases:

(c) Legal obligation: processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject

(e) Public task: processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

Law Commission projects are usually lengthy and often the same area of law will be considered on more than one occasion. The Commission will, therefore retain personal data in line with our retention and deletion policies, via hard copy filing, electronic filing and a stakeholder management database unless we are asked to do otherwise. We will only use personal data for the purposes outlined above.

We aim to be transparent in our decision-making, and to explain the basis on which we have reached conclusions. We may publish or disclose information you provide in response to Law Commission papers, including personal information. For example, we may publish an extract of your response in Law Commission publications, or publish the response itself. We may also share responses with the Government. Additionally, we may be required to disclose the information, such as in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation.

Consultation responses are most effective where we are able to report which consultees responded to us, and what they said. If you consider that it is necessary for all or some of the information that you provide to be treated as confidential and so neither published nor disclosed, please contact us before sending it. Please limit the confidential material to the minimum, clearly identify it and explain why you want it to be confidential. We cannot guarantee that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances and an automatic disclaimer generated by your IT system will not be regarded as binding on the Law Commission.

Alternatively, you may want your response to be anonymous. That means that we may refer to what you say in your response, but will not reveal that the information came from you. You might want your response to be anonymous because it contains sensitive information about you or your family, or because you are worried about other people knowing what you have said to us.

We list who responded to our consultations in our reports. If you provide a confidential response your name will appear in that list. If your response is anonymous we will not include your name in the list unless you have given us permission to do so.

Further information

Further information about how we handle data is available here.

Contact us

Any queries about the contents of this Privacy Notice can be directed to: enquiries@lawcommission.gov.uk.

i. What is your name?
ii. What is the name of your organisation?
iii. Are you responding to this consultation in a personal capacity, or on behalf of an organisation?

If other, please state.

iv. What is your email address?
v. Are you:
(Required)

If other, please specify.

vi. If you are a landlord or a tenant, how many employees does your business have?
vii. If you are a landlord or tenant, where in England and Wales are your business tenancies primarily located? (Select all that apply.)
viii. If you are a landlord or tenant, what type of business is carried out from your premises? (Select all that apply.)

Other (please specify)

ix. If there is anything else you wish to tell us about you or your organisation, please do so here.
x. Anonymity and confidentiality

More information

General

The paragraphs relating to our Privacy Notice below are those which are of particular relevance to the handling and possible publication and/or disclosure of the names and responses of consultees.

Different parts of our Privacy Notice deal with other aspects of privacy, such as the retention of personal data. To see our full Privacy Notice, please follow the link under the heading below entitled "Further information".

Privacy Notice

We aim to be transparent in our decision-making, and to explain the basis on which we have reached conclusions. We may publish or disclose information you provide in response to Law Commission papers, including personal information. For example, we may publish an extract of your response in Law Commission publications, or publish the response itself. We may also share responses with the Government. Additionally, we may be required to disclose the information, such as in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We will process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation.

Consultation responses are most effective where we are able to report which consultees responded to us, and what they said. If you consider that it is necessary for all or some of the information that you provide to be treated as confidential and so neither published nor disclosed, please contact us before sending it. Please limit the confidential material to the minimum, clearly identify it and explain why you want it to be confidential. We cannot guarantee that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances and an automatic disclaimer generated by your IT system will not be regarded as binding on the Law Commission.

Alternatively, you may want your response to be anonymous. That means that we may refer to what you say in your response, but will not reveal that the information came from you. You might want your response to be anonymous because it contains sensitive information about you or your family, or because you are worried about other people knowing what you have said to us.

We list who responded to our consultations in our reports. If you provide a confidential response your name will appear in that list. If your response is anonymous we will not include your name in the list unless you have given us permission to do so.

Further information

Further information about how we handle data is available here.

Contact us

Any queries about the contents of this Privacy Notice can be directed to: enquiries@lawcommission.gov.uk.

Before answering the following questions, and as explained elsewhere, please note that consultation responses are most effective where we are able to report which consultees responded to us, and what they said.

We invite consultees to tell us how they would like their name treated.

Please note that if you are responding on behalf of an organisation, we will not publish your personal name, and any references to the "name" below should be understood as a reference to the name of the organisation you are responding on behalf of.

(Required)

We invite consultees to tell us how they would like their consultation response treated. As noted under “More information” above, we cannot guarantee that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances and we may need to disclose it such as in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

(Required)

If you opted for your consultation response to be treated confidentially, meaning that your consultation response will not be published or disclosed, please tell us which part(s) of your consultation response you do not wish to be published or disclosed and please explain why.

(If you opted for your consultation response not to be treated confidentially, meaning that your consultation response may be published or disclosed, this question is inapplicable and you can respond "N/A".)