Mr. Tom Dunne:

Of course. That will be an important aspect of the board's work. It was also provided for in the original legislation that the creation of the board would afford the Government the opportunity to receive some good advice based on evidence from the board's activities and that is available. The board has an important role in advising the Government on RPZs. However, any system of rent certainty one brings in is going to contain some anomalies and that is one of them. That might be examined in the current RPZ system. Rent certainty and rent control are fraught issues. Getting the model right is difficult the world over. The model we brought in here has been pretty cleverly constructed, given all the constraints that are brought to bear in trying to construct a model of rent control. I take the point, and the board and I are certainly conscious that there are anomalous situations in which benign landlords lost out in the formula that was brought in to deal with these zones. How to deal with that now is a question to which I would have to give a lot more thought at this stage.