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If you are not seeing patients because of the restrictions that they are under and the restrictions on your services, I suppose that the difficulty is how to get up-to-date clinical knowledge to make those prioritisation choices in a different way from before.
Further guidance for that group will be made clear in advance of that date. We are actively looking at those questions, but I am not in a position today to confirm to the committee exactly what those arrangements will be.
If you were able to close the fund tomorrow and you paid off—I do not mean that in a bad way—or gave lump sums to the existing claimants on the cut-off date, what would happen with the rest of the money?
We have heard that it is quite an onerous task to keep the electoral register up to date. Has the Government considered what assistance it might provide to ensure that the register is resourced and kept up to date as well as it can be?
What are your views on the extent to which those principles have been considered in the trialling of the technology to date and the balancing of the cost to individual liberty and the proposed benefits to public safety, which is what we are really talking about?
The second principle is that the data that we use should be as up to date as possible. We do not want elections to be conducted on the basis of electorate data that is three, four or five years out of date.