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Mervyn, has the Association of British Insurers been engaged?

My next question is about the scope of the bill. Should the focus of the bill be solely on cladding remediation, or should it extend to cover all fire safety issues, or even all significant building safety matters?

I can immediately see the thorniness of all that, and “development” is just one word.

So the register is not a point in time; it has an inherent process within it.

Mervyn, what are your thoughts on enhancing PAS 9980? What do we need to do?

That is helpful. We come back to the scope of the bill. We heard from the previous panel that we need to move forward but that we need to be aware that more legislation might need to be introduced to handle those other pieces or to deal with the whole building.

Is there another way round that? You might need to write to us about that.

John Marr wants to come in on that point.

I am glad that you brought that up, because when I read about that in the papers, I thought that the deadline seemed quite tight. What would be the more usual timeframe for that kind of appeal process in situations that are not so urgent?

That was very helpful.

I will just open it up and ask the panel whether there is, from their perspective, anything else missing from the bill. Does anybody else want to come in on that? If not, I will call Miles Briggs, who has a brief supplementary.