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The date does not have to be 2024. That is an arbitrary date that the Government has included in the bill because, post-Brexit, it wants to provide stability and clarity that will allow farmers and land managers a degree of certainty in developing and investing in their businesses.
We have operated on that basis to date. If there is a scenario in which there is potentially more funding, that would be part of the wider Scottish Government plan.
That rate spans the deals that have been closed across the programme to date, and as you would expect, the LIBOR rate has also moved around over the same period.