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The figures speak for themselves, do they not? We are doing 6,000 systems per year, but we need to do 166,000 per year. What will cause the massive acceleration that is needed for people to participate and engage with us?

Do you think that electricity pricing is the key driver for the transition that we want?

I have a few questions. I want to go back to the contract for a second. David Jones, you told us that some of the challenges that you faced meant that you were taking 38 per cent more prisoners to the High Court, 44 per cent more prisoners to solemn cases and so on. Were the numbers of prisoners that you were dealing with not specified and agreed in the contract itself? If you are being asked to deliver more and more, without agreement, how can that be regarded as a contract failure?

Those additional numbers have had a huge impact on you. Did you try to vary the terms of the contract at any point, given that it is quite clear that what you have been asked to do has far and away exceeded what we might reasonably have expected you to do?

I think that I understand that.

Financial support has been mentioned a few times. The SPS gave GEOAmey £6.3 million between April 2020 and June 2021. Was that for furlough support or for wages?

Roy, it seems to me that if a home owner wants to make the transition for themselves, they are on their own. They do not have the benefit of tapping into a mass supplier and getting economies of scale. Potentially, there is a route through the local authorities, if they take the lead. Just last month, a House of Commons committee said that there could and should be a greater role for local authorities to drive the sea-change transition that we hope for.

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Nevertheless, your company was fined—we call them “service credits”—for not being able to deal with huge increases in the numbers going to court.

Are those numbers tailing off post-Covid?

That was, in effect, a one-off payment, was it not? That is not sustainable.