Mr. Cian ? Lion?in:

I will start with the Deputy’s second question. On cycling and the infrastructure relating to it, I want to pick up on a point that Mr. Gibbons made. We are trying to grow the cycling ecosystem, so we are absolutely exploring a joint bid for the Tour de France, North and South. Another area under the national development plan is that we want to build a velodrome on the campus because, from all of our research, that will become a real generator for awareness of and participation in cycling.

The point on e-bikes is well made. I am conscious that the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has a pilot scheme with sports clubs at the moment but it is for motorised EVs, whereas I think there is an obvious evolution there to create those bike linkages.

On short-term letting, my colleagues have made the points very well. From the Department’s perspective, we want to grow self-catering. The challenge is that there is a housing crisis. There are places where the resulting tension needs to be addressed, but, in the long term, one of the bigger challenges is how we actually grow and build self-catering because it is a unique offering that is of particular value to some of our key markets.