Ms Caroline Timmons:

I could not agree more and, obviously, the inspection regime needs to be improved. We have a big target of 25% of tenancies. As the Deputy acknowledged, Covid has been an issue for us. What we are trying to do is get local authorities back into that space. As he will be aware, they did try virtual inspections and I know they want to continue that and it may be one way to do things, but the physical inspections are important as well.

The Deputy has seen there are low numbers of follow-through right to the end. That is sometimes because 93% of them fail in the first instance because of a small thing, for example, a fire blanket or something that can be resolved. Many times, it does not go through to the end because they are resolved before the end, and I think that explains the low numbers that the Deputy will see. For us, we think the local authorities need to do more in taking it all the way to the end, and I agree with the Deputy in that respect. We will encourage them strongly to up that target this year.