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I am pretty sure that the group will challenge the Government, because it is in all our interests to ensure that we have the best-possible strategy and the best-performing life sciences industry.
Amendment 70 would work with amendment 66 to ensure that, in setting rates and bands, the minister acts in the way “best calculated” to help to meet the target that is set in the aviation emissions policy.
It is a matter of trying to get that balance, and it is an operational issue for the chief constable to decide how that can best be achieved across the country. I understand the position that is often repeated by politicians about the three forces.
We all appreciate the reality of the decline in participation, volunteering and investment, which has been talked about today. We are doing the best with what we have, but we can do more.
We have very good and on-going discussions with it about methodologies. Where we differ, we do our best to explain why. As I said, it is mostly down to what data is available to different forecasts at different points.