Thank you, Llywydd. This group of amendments relates to section 8, concerning the Welsh Ministers' duties to provide information to landlords. Of course I share David Melding’s wish to ensure that all relevant parties are aware of abolition, and I commit to make every effort to ensure all landlords are aware of their duty in this respect.

Indeed, Government amendments at Stage 2 revised the Bill following the Equalities, Local Government and Communities Committee recommendation to place a duty on the Welsh Ministers to provide bodies representing tenants with a copy of the relevant information, and to prescribe the minimum information qualifying landlords must provide to tenants regarding abolition. So, the Bill was strengthened at Stage 2. 

Amendment 7 seeks to place an absolute duty on Welsh Ministers to send the information to landlords in Wales, and amendment 8 places a qualified duty for the Welsh Ministers to send the information to landlords outside Wales. However, I would ask Members to reject these amendments. We consider there is no need for an absolute duty on the Welsh Ministers to provide the information to social landlords in Wales. This is because we are fully aware of all the qualifying landlords based in Wales and will be contacting them accordingly.

In addition, we do not consider that the Bill should be amended so that the existing qualified duty to inform landlords only applies to landlords based outside Wales. The current drafting recognises that the Welsh Government is reliant on a third party, namely the Homes and Communities Agency, to provide us with details of social landlords based outside Wales who own homes for rent in Wales. 

I therefore ask Members to reject these amendments.