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Similarly, if we make homes more efficient, it does not mean that people necessarily use less energy; they may use more. In bringing people out of fuel poverty, we encourage them to heat their homes more than they did previously.
My interpretation of that is that, in cases in which the accused intimates a plea and may well be sentenced against the background of the plea, that could be dealt with by TV link.
In terms of straight financial costs—if I may park carbon costs for a minute—we have a reasonably good understanding of the costs of supplying different groups of customers.