Ms Marie Hunt:

I am not sure how it is funded in other jurisdictions. I seem to recall that the Paris model that I have heard quite a bit about is solely funded by the Exchequer. I do not think there is independent influence at all. Everybody would have to agree to provide data to it and that could possibly be a challenge. I am sure that all of the major top five firms that are spending time and efforts collating data would be delighted to pool it into one central source.