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Karen Dee: We have not carried out an assessment as such, but there is a pretty obvious potential increase in costs, added to the existing increases that we are facing anyway, as a result of the business rate increases. The increase is significant and, in the current economic climate, certainly not something that many businesses could contemplate. The other thing is that businesses will have to assume that, in going forward, they have to bear the cost, so they will plan accordingly.