Mr. David Thompson:

It works quite well in Scotland. We have had a partnership with the Scottish Government for over ten years for the Scotland's People website, which has 1.3 million registered users. There is a revenue share model where the Scottish Government gets some revenue and we get some revenue. We are incurring the cost of setting up and running the site. On Princess Street in Edinburgh, there is a Scotland's People centre, which has 30 full-time employees. It is cost neutral because it is funded out of what is done on the website. That is a way of opening up genealogy to people who can come in and look at records. There is a small charge involved, but there are also opportunities to view things for free as well. Looking at what works elsewhere, we are not here to advocate a particular partnership model, but there are partnership models out there that work. These are the way forward in terms of getting digitisation access and then global accessibility - something that is very important for the diaspora - and getting that online as quickly and as effectively as possible.