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Honestly, I understand that. Maybe you are saying that we have a system set up until December 2030 but that, if another payment method was developed sooner, the regulations could just be annulled.

The regulations would be annulled because they would no longer be relevant.

That is all that I wanted to know. I am just trying to get my head around the law.

I wanted to do it in a stream, so that you follow my train of thought.

Is that additional to the £29.3 million that we already have for compliance?

Convener, do we know the level of the fines? Do we have information about that?

I would quite like to see that. If we are being told that the fines are not high enough, that has to change. It deters the people who obey the law, which is wrong if others get away with it.

I do not know if I have anything else to say, but I might want to come back in with supplementary questions. I am trying to find my way through my papers.

When we look at the millions that you are having to spend on compliance and enforcement, £140,000 does not seem like an awful lot of money. Does that get ploughed back into the budget?

I hope that my question is about the budget and it will be brief—

You will need to explain—