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My noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe is also right that we need to improve the connections. One thing that has been frustrating is that Ofgem, for what it is worth, has overinterpreted existing legislation. The previous regime was National Grid, as it was, now it is NESO. It could have had more flexibility in order to have more certainty on what was to be connected, instead of connections agreed 10 years ago, with very little, as a consequence, happening. That is partly because it leads to a whole bunch of work and fear in local communities on what further infrastructure will be used for the transmissions.