Mr. Aidan Dunning:

Certainly, one would want to be moving pretty quickly on at least having heads of legislation ready for submission to the Government towards the autumn of this year. Forgive me for not being as familiar as I should be with the detail of the value-for-money study. I would not underplay the transitional aspect. It is very important that we would get the move from one system to another right so we will not pull the floor out from underneath, so to speak. One can imagine the outcome if people are expecting another system. As I emphasised, if it replaces the licence fee system, the compliance rate could be a difficulty. Nobody wants a situation to emerge whereby public sector broadcasting revenue would be at serious risk in a transitional period. All of that will have to be very carefully worked through and nuanced. It can, I think, be done in the timeframe.