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This year, we have focused our scrutiny on two of the principles: affordability and budget processes. We agreed before the summer recess that our main focus would be on affordability.
My colleague Dennis Robertson was so right when, in the debate that we had just before the recess about accessible tourism, he called for a change in the terminology that defines disabled people.
To have this debate in this chamber while driving towards the announcement of the referendum date on Thursday is, as I said, deeply disrespectful—Interruption.
When it became apparent, in June this year, that the switch-off date was running into trouble, I wrote to the chief executive of Ofgem to ask for a number of reassurances.
This year, for example, we hoped to set up a tour that would involve crossing into a couple of other countries and doing more European dates than we have been able to achieve.
Being relatively new to the sector, I was struck by how difficult it often is to find data—in particular, up-to-date data. Often, data is several years out of date.