These regulations amend, as the Minister was saying, the 2013 regulations to uprate certain figures used to calculate an applicant’s entitlement to a reduction under a council tax reduction scheme.

Our report on these regulations contained, as the Minister mentioned, two technical points, and I thank the Minister for providing a timely response. The first technical reporting point highlighted what we considered to be a small issue with the drafting of the Welsh language version of the regulations.

Our second technical reporting point identified an inconsistency between the English language and the Welsh language texts in regulation 13 of the regulations. The Minister agreed with these reporting points. The Welsh Government considered that these errors are technical in nature, and we were indeed told that these would be corrected prior to the instrument being made.

So, Minister, thank you for confirming to the Chamber that these corrections will take place as has been suggested, and for responding so positively to our report.