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From your research, do you have a sense of where the younger landlords are going? Are they just selling their properties?

Thank you for highlighting the need for a distinction in that regard.

Emma, do you want to say something briefly?

That is great. I am sure that more will come out as we ask other questions. I move to Alex Marsh to give an overview of his research work.

There are measures in the bill that address such risks, such as the tenant having to ask whether they can do something and the landlord having the right to refuse it.

Joshua Davies, do you have any comments on the balance between the rights of tenants and the rights of landlords?

We move to our final area of questioning. I bring in Miles Briggs on implementation.

Does anybody want to pick that up? I will go to Anna Evans and then to Deborah Hay.

That brings our questions to a conclusion. It has been very helpful to hear from the witnesses this morning. Before I suspend the meeting, I invite Mark Griffin to declare his interest.

I welcome our second panel of witnesses: Lyndsay Clelland is a policy officer at Age Scotland; Dan Wilson Craw is the deputy chief executive of Generation Rent; Aoife Deery is a senior social justice policy officer at Citizens Advice Scotland; Ellie Gomersall is the president of the National Union of Students Scotland; Eilidh Keay is a tenant of a rented property; and Emma Saunders is the national organiser of Living Rent.

We turn to questions. There is no need for you to operate your microphones. We will do that for you. I have a couple of general opening questions. The first is about your thoughts on the Scottish Government’s statement that the bill

“contains a package of reforms which will help ensure people have a safe, secure, and affordable place to live.”

I would be interested to hear your thoughts in general on the extent to which the bill will deliver those aims. Who would like to go first, or shall I pick on someone? I will call Eilidh Keay then Aoife Deery.