Member

In reading through the response on short selling, I noticed that there were more than 800 consumer respondents, most of whom responded in a standard way—I think online. In their response, the Government explained that a lot of the things said by consumer respondents were more relevant to the US situation. That was probably a fair statement, although I obviously do not have access to the consultation documents. However, this again shows that people are interested in what goes on in short selling. They are concerned, even if they do not know exactly what the legislation is. To some extent, that reinforces my thinking that it is necessary to consider how consumers view things. Apart from that, there were only about 25 respondents, which is not very many.