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We also have with us reporters from the official report, which is the equivalent of Hansard; Stephen Imrie and his clerking team; and Stephen Herbert, from SPICe.
The experience in London and the south-east is that the official allowance of London weighting is not sufficient to buy labour of equivalent quality or stability.
Remember that the issue that the council is raising sprung up from a report by an official. The councillors rejected that report, because they thought that it was not a good one.