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On spot checks, what flags or signals do you get? How do you choose where to do spot checks?

You have gone on to my next question. However, I want to be clear that rent control areas will not be blanketed across Scotland. There will be a process whereby local authorities will review the situation, and the idea in the bill is that ministers will then consider whether it is appropriate to introduce such areas.

I go back to my initial question: what are your views on the bill’s provisions on rent control areas? Timothy Douglas has indicated that he wants to come in.

Thank you very much. I am sorry—I am just going to interrupt, because we do have lots of questions and my question initially was about the rent control area provision in the bill. If we could go there, it would be interesting to hear your perspective on that.

Thank you very much. My question was about how rent controls could be acceptable to institutional investors. Can I clarify that you are saying that we should link them to inflation?

Thanks very much for that. Gordon MacDonald, do you want to come in on a supplementary?

Thanks for that. Pam Gosal will ask question 3, and I am keen to get Anna Gardiner in on the conversation.

You do not need to apologise for saying anything, but we have about half an hour left and I am keen to bring in other members who have not had a chance to speak. A stack of people have said that they want to come in on this area. Please try to keep your responses as succinct as possible and come in if you are bringing something new into the conversation, because we need to get through some things.

Robin Blacklock, you are online and you wanted to come in a while ago. John Blackwood, you indicated that you want to come in, and my colleague Gordon MacDonald indicated that he has a short supplementary question. We will go with that order and see how we get on. Then I will bring in Willie Coffey and then go back and pick up on one of Miles Briggs’s questions. We have a lot to do and a lot to cover. Robin, come on in.

Brilliant—thank you for that. Willie, do you have more questions?

Does anyone want to pick that up? I do not want to stifle the conversation by bringing in the issue of time, so please come in.

I will bring in Pam Gosal on the theme of joint tenancies.