I'll certainly look at that issue in terms of how we can encourage, through guidance, which will become statutory, the importance of ensuring that tenants are skilled and equipped and confident to be challenging board members. I'm very keen that, in all circumstances, board members understand that their role is very much there as a role of challenging and scrutiny, and they should always be enabled to have those skills in order to undertake that kind of role in a robust and thorough manner. 

I'd also add that one of the performance standards that RSLs have to adhere to specifically compels them to demonstrate effective and appropriate tenant involvement and high-quality and improving services for tenants. TPAS Cymru, through hearing the tenants' voice in the regulation of housing associations in Wales, does gather views and concerns from tenants across Wales on behalf of the Welsh Government, and the information that TPAS then provides Welsh Government does give us a kind of sense check in terms of what RSLs are telling us about how they involve tenants and take their views into account.

TPAS Cymru, when giving evidence, said,

'I think one of the risks here is about the need to make sure that tenants are involved and that their voices are heard throughout the process in terms of how organisations are operating, and that's one of the new regulatory standards. Tenants are now expected to be part of the structural planning of a housing association.' 

They think that that is very much something to be welcomed, as I do. So, undoubtedly, there will be points of detail that we will need to consider in more depth as we move to Stage 2 of the process, but today I would ask Members to approve the motion.