Thank you for the questions.
I'll just jump immediately to your final question. I think it's highly likely that we will retain hybrid facilities into the longer term. I think we're already going down that track, although the committee has asked for the implications of working in a hybrid way to be monitored in the longer term.
In relation to proxy voting, yes, I'd really welcome sharing information with you on our pilot once it gets up and running. I don't have a start date for that yet, but I would expect it to be up and running in the very near future and to run for 12 months. I think there's a good opportunity here for an exchange between us on that.
In terms of the evidence the committee heard, there was a broad spectrum. The balance of evidence was for retaining hybrid in the longer term for reasons of inclusivity. Just before the last election—we had an election at the same time colleagues in Wales did last year—we had several women who stood down and were critical of the fact that they were finding it very difficult to balance their responsibilities of caring for young families with those of being a parliamentarian. That weighed very heavily on the committee's thinking when it was balancing the evidence it heard.
It was also very persuaded by societal developments and wanted Parliament to keep pace with those, rather than reverting to where it was before. That was all in the context of a very strong view across the piece that parliamentary scrutiny is better served when people come physically together, so there's a balancing act that the committee struck, but we're certainly putting ourselves on a path to being a permanent hybrid parliament.