Member

In terms of an extra element of how this transpires, back nearly a year ago, or whenever it was, there was a consultation accompanied by draft statutory guidance, and a decision was made in May last year. I appreciate that it is perfectly acceptable for the Government to change their mind, but that was to remove the statutory guidance that originally was going to be laid alongside regulations to require a minimum of fortnightly collections. That has been dropped, and I say to the Minister that page 14 of the impact assessment refers specifically to the fact that a lot of the calculations have been done on the basis of fortnightly collections.