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Thank you.

Thank you very much, John. I will bring in Donryn Dewar in a minute, but we are starting to creep beyond my questions and to go into Willie Coffey’s, so I will bring in Willie to ask his questions on CPI plus 1 per cent, then Donryn can respond to whichever bit of the mix she wants.

Donryn, please come in on whichever bit you want to come in on.

Thank you.

With apologies for not going back to Willie Coffey, I will bring in Emma Roddick because she has to go somewhere else quite soon.

Whichever was lower in what instance? Do you mean on an annual basis, at the very start or whatever?

Super—thanks very much.

I will bring in Meghan Gallacher in a moment. We have 25 minutes left in the agreed time slot. I have just checked with the clerk, and we can probably go over by around 15 minutes, which I hope is okay with the witnesses.

I want to dig into the wage connection that some of you have brought up, and then I will bring in Meghan on the quality aspects that you have started to talk about. I hope that our other questions might go quite quickly.

I am not asking you to look into a crystal ball on why the Government chose to link the cap to CPI rather than wage growth. Our report mentioned that Living Rent proposed linking the cap to wage inflation. Have you come across in your work any reasons why the Government chose CPI rather than linking to wages or, as Generation Rent proposes, choosing the lower of the two? Has anybody done that thinking?

Can I clarify something? You said that the ONS publishes rent data but that it is limited to data at the local authority level, making it difficult to design a rent-controlled area, and that we need more detail and more granularity. Is that what you are saying?

Great. A few people have indicated that they want to come in—Cameron Gillies, Timothy Douglas and Cedric Bucher. I have not seen anyone else indicate, so we will go with that and see whether anyone else needs to come in.

Thanks for that. It is great to hear a differing opinion. Does anybody else want to answer that question?

Thank you. I will go to John Boyle.