It was arguing from the point of view that it needs to make people redundant and to cut budgets just now, and that those events, although they are important publicly and constitutionally, are not ones for which it needs to ramp up production.11:30 In all fairness, I think that the arguments were put forward very much from the financial point of view that it will not bust the bank to cover the Commonwealth games, which run for a couple of weeks, or a one-night vote, and that the BBC could handle that out of business-as-usual budgets with a small additional amount of money from London.I do not know whether it is possible for such things not to have been minuted, but I commented to the BBC that the independence negotiations would require extra resourcing, and it did not rise to that.