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I think that you sum it up very well, John.

I would like to follow that up with Jim McGonigal. I wonder whether part of the challenge is to get all that data together so that we can prioritise the risks that need to be addressed urgently, and use that information to take a wider, more holistic look at the issues that are coming up and what we should be looking to tackle as we move forward. Is that also part of the thinking?

Some of this has been touched on, but clarity is always good. In their written evidence, ABI and UK Finance asked that the bill focus not just on the preservation of life but on the protection of property. Mervyn, you have just spoken about property resilience to prevent total loss. Are there other justifications for that change, or is it about the potential cost for insurers only? What are the implications for the cost of and timescales for remediation work?

I am the MSP for the Uddingston and Bellshill constituency in Lanarkshire.

Gary Strong, on the point that you just made that people have to be competent to do that work, how would you go about defining competence if someone does not have that qualification? You have not had many people applying for the course. Would it be better to target the course at the type of people who have been most interested in it?

Do you have any concerns about the costs and timescales for remediation work?

Do you have any reflections on some of the comments that were made by the earlier panel on having flexibility and using secondary legislation rather than having to go back and change primary legislation?

Homes for Scotland’s response to the call for views on the bill mentioned the concept of “tolerable risk”, which Fionna Kell touched on earlier. Could you briefly outline what that is, how it might apply to the bill and what it would mean for cladding remediation in practice?

Good morning. I am the MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill constituency in Lanarkshire.

Good morning. I am the MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill.