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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 are expecting two per month from October onwards. Wabtec met the most recent date that it promised to meet—the seventh train was delivered on target.
However, I think that it would be preferable for the start of the period to begin not on the date of royal assent but on the date of the opt-out system’s introduction.
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.