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Are you asking whether it would have an impact on new deals? Yes. If you are using the PFI structure, there would certainly be an impact on new deals, because you would need to look at the credit quality of the new entity that was paying the unitary charge.
Would you consider extending that period, perhaps to 26 or 28 hours, to allow slightly greater flexibility and to enable efficient management of the new system?
The timetable will be tight.You are all members of political parties, and I would have thought that you would want a new system done and dusted and up and running by October, November or December—at the latest—of the year preceding the election.