Planning Bill
1:15 pm
Phil Jones: Yes. So far as we have been able to tell, one of the big question marks for us about the Bill as drafted is what would be attached to any given proposal. Let us say that we are talking about the scenario that I have described, where the thing at the end is clearly material. Our question as a network company is whether you will include all the things that go with it. I do not mean that you should give us open season on anything in that particular set of postcodes to do whatever we want, but you should put us through a process that can be validated externally, which says, “Is this or is this not the marginal infrastructure that is required to put this in place?” By the way, the person who is developing the nationally significant asset has an interest in making sure that we are not doing that, because generally speaking they will be paying for those connection assets. The honest truth is that I think that it will be a bigger number than those people who are lobbying you, for sure, if we want to hit the type of targets that we are talking about. It is just time for some hard choices.