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Thanks very much for that. Aoife Deery will come in shortly, but first I would like to ask you all for your comments on the extent to which the bill delivers the Government’s stated aim of people having

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

My second question is on an aspect that Eilidh Keay started to touch on. I will put that into the mix so that you can pick it up, too. It is about how well you think the bill balances the rights of tenants and those of landlords.

Ellie Gomersall can go next.

We will move on to questions on personalisation of homes, which Mark Griffin will ask.

I bring in Miles Briggs, who will continue on various areas of rent.

Do you have a sense of whether the bill balances the rights of tenants with the rights of landlords?

Does anyone want to come in on that? I do not want to stifle responses.

I bring in Lyndsay Clelland, and then Emma Saunders.

We are keen to get a sense of whether the bill strikes the right balance between the rights of tenants and those of landlords. That is the key point that we want to be clear on.

I want to ask Ken Gibb something before I bring in Anna Evans. Ken, you spoke about pushing things back to the Scottish Government with regard to the market analysis. Do you think that putting a duty on ministers to decide whether or not to propose to designate a rent control area, informed by local authorities, will protect those authorities from pressure and, indeed, from legal risk? That is the difference between control areas and pressure zones, is it not?

Could we change that three-year lag in the bill?