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Finally, Amendments 17 and 18, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Grayling, would alter commencements so that Clause 6, and thus the levy, cannot come into force until a domestic producer is judged to be within six months of operation and holding a revenue certainty contract, and the Secretary of State has laid a notice before Parliament. I have a great deal of sympathy with the concern that underlies these amendments. No one wants money to be collected significantly in advance of there being any realistic prospects of payments flowing to producers. However, the proposed solution introduces a series of subjective and likely to be contested tests into the commencement provisions where a producer is