Thank you. At the point of any home possession, a landlord can actually have amassed costs of more than around £30,000 when considering lost rent, legal fees and often damage that needs calculating. This, of course, is when tenants are not fulfilling their own due lease obligations. Now, delays are reported at every stage of the possession process, with the median time standing at 21.1 weeks by March 2020. Taken together, this results in a fundamental lack of faith in the present court system from our landlords and risks undermining the legal redress protections enacted for tenants by the renting homes Act.

Now, as Propertymark have informed me, there is a very real risk that landlords, particularly those owning a single property, will leave this sector providing these much-needed homes. Now, in October last year, the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee recommended the investigation of the need for a stand-alone and specific housing tribunal in Wales. So, Minister, will you confirm what discussions you have had and undertaken to review the possibility of developing a dedicated housing tribunal for Wales? Diolch.