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SNH's budget is around £63 million or £64 million. You may receive around £1.7 million, but you are considering scenarios in which there may be reductions of between £3 million and £7 million.
In rural areas, we need more flexibility in the registration of care services, because a service may not survive if it is purely a care home, for example; it may be a care home that also provides care at home.
We believe that it would be useful to do that before the bill is passed. As Paul Martin hinted, there may be the possibility of the church's view being changed.
That is what we are considering today; we are not specifically looking at the sanctions that may or may not be proposed. The report concludes by making a number of recommendations, which we support.I turn to the Liberal Democrat amendment.
There have been no changes thus far on that issue, although the independent commission may well comment on it. The commission is conducting a two-stage review.