Thank you very much, Chair.
First of all, I want to say how pleased we are to see this bill come forward. This has been a concern for many of my own constituents in particular, being affected by ghost consultants, but I am a little concerned about some of the aspects of this bill, in that the challenges that have been faced over the past years with CSIC have not entirely, to my mind, been avoided by this bill.
One of the concerns people have had around the CSIC is they have been unable to gather the resources from their members, in terms of membership fees, to be able to adequately police their members and overview their members, and that has led to issues around overly expensive learning materials and just higher fees than the members feel are warranted. How is that going to be dealt with by the new regulator, given the fact that there is a small pool of immigration consultants who are not lawyers out there? There are around 1,800 now, maybe up to 6,000 if all the ghosts become members. How is this new regulatory body going to be able to function with the limited financial intake that they will necessarily have from such a small pool?