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Thanks for that. It is helpful to understand the context. If we had those powers, I wonder whether we would be designing a different bill.

So that we are all on the same page, I point out that CaCHE is the acronym for the Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

That is all right. We use a lot of those terms around here—it is a completely different language.

On data collection—we touched on this earlier when we spoke about the landlord register, but I would like a bit more information—at the moment, landlords have to meet basic safety and environmental standards, with the gas safety check, electrical safety documents and the energy performance certificate. What advantages would there be and how feasible would it be to require landlords to provide that information to local authorities—and provide it proactively, rather than local authorities having to request it? Could that be a useful approach? Last week, the committee talked with the bill team about the purpose of the bill and about that being related to the experience of somebody who is renting accommodation.

We have a couple of questions about data, so we will discuss that issue in more detail later.

That is very helpful.

We will move on, because of the time, and unleash the questions on data. I think that everybody is keen to get more detail on that.

Let us just see whether those come out in our questions, but that is helpful. You have gone into a space that I was going to ask about, so perhaps I could pick that up. You went into quite a bit of detail on the bill. I would be interested to hear from our other witnesses on that. The intention behind the Scottish Government’s bill is to introduce a package of reforms to ensure that

“people have a safe, secure, and affordable place to live”.

I would be interested to hear to what extent you think the bill delivers on those aims. Perhaps Professor Gibb could start.

Who wants to pick that up?

Deborah Hay, do you have anything to add?