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If there are no other responses, I have finished with my questions, convener.

Those landlords do not have to apply the conditions and ceilings and so on, so what has been happening? In your experience, have rural landlords been keeping the rents pretty flat?

They do not have to apply the measures if they do not want to, but do you see the measures—the CPI plus 1 per cent rise, with a ceiling of 6 per cent—being an attractive thing for landlords in the rural sector to grab on to and apply? Are you saying that they might feel compelled to apply them?

Thank you for that. As there are no other comments on that topic, that is me, convener.

Are there any other perspectives on the rural angle? Has anyone picked up any different messages or impacts that we might expect in the rural setting?

There has already been a wee bit of discussion about the CPI plus 1 per cent approach and the 6 per cent ceiling. Do you have any other views—positive or negative—on those numbers and formula that you have not already expressed to the committee? I would be delighted to hear your input, if you have a different perspective.

Are there any other views on the position between tenancies?

I have two further queries, which I might as well roll into one.

First, would the witnesses broadly support ministers having regulatory powers that would allow them to change the index mechanism and the percentages? Secondly, on the idea of between-tenancy rises, should the controls remain in place between tenancies or not?

Are there any views on those two points?

We must also directly invest, rather than hope for trickle-down benefit.

I will give an example. I do not know whether you have any association with the Ayrshire growth deal, but one of the most successful components of that deal has been the Halo project, which was conceived and has been delivered for many years by a friend of mine, Marie Macklin. The project web page does not say anything about women, but it does not mention men, either. It is an absolutely brilliant, first-class project. What could or should that project have been if it had thought about inclusive growth from a women’s perspective? It might be unfair to ask you that if you do not know the project, but what could have been done differently?