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Yes.

Dan, I will have to rein you in a little bit there.

Pam Gosal has another question. We have another 12 questions and an hour left, and there are quite a few of you on the panel. I appeal to us all to do a bit of collective time management. Colleagues—you know what that means.

Pam, do you want to come in? I think that only one person needs to answer the next question, which is on rent control areas.

Gordon MacDonald, you indicated that you wanted to ask a brief supplementary.

Anna Evans, you indicated that you want to come in, and I get the sense that Deborah Hay does, too.

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.