I thank the Member for his comments. Of course, the Member’s right to raise the issue that this legislation was passed in the last term of this Assembly with the previous Government. Now, it’s the implementation stage. Of course, I’m familiar also that the Member is yet to experience that process of legislation. One of his questions relates to the issue around—the Member used the word ‘burden’, but I would use the word ‘cost’—involved for local authorities. That is in the regulatory impact assessment. As we take through legislation in this Assembly, the Member will of course get familiar with that as we take forward further legislation.

I’ve been very clear about the proposal of extending the deadline. I will not be seeking to extend the deadline, for the reason I alluded to in my statement—that would just move the process further down. People who are seeking to use the final date for registration as their final application—that will be tomorrow, and if I was to extend it for another month or two, they would just use that date for two months, rather than tomorrow, which is not acceptable.

The Member is right about the flat-fee registration. This was, again, a very strongly contested proposal during the process of introducing the Act. Of course, there are many circumstances where families own properties and pass them to members of their family, et cetera. It’s really hard to disaggregate that. Actually, we believe that the flat fee at a relatively small level is a reasonable fee for all fee-paying registrations to take place; therefore, it was hugely debated, but was passed by this Assembly by a majority in the last Government.