Mr. Bill Smith:

To follow up on this point, the City and County Managers Association is represented on the Civil Defence Board and it is our intention that this continues in the forum. This provides a strategic managerial view of Civil Defence at local authority level. Normally the way managers split up their business is through certain consultative committees. We deal with the manager representative on the emergency response side. In other words we get the collective view of management on emergency response issues in our forum and we engage with them. We also have this route into local authorities.