Member

Later in the consideration of the Bill, we will need to go through in a lot of detail how the calculations are done in the impact assessment, because we suspect that the methodology employed is defective, certainly in respect of the costs of establishing and running the regulator, which will be recovered from the clubs through the levy, and the compliance costs. It would be helpful if the Minister could tell me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that there was no consultation with clubs at any point in the pyramid about what the compliance costs for them would be in terms of the extra staff that they would have to take on and the extra burdens, which would reduce their current success. It would be very good for her to respond on that.