Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

In July 2015, we published the consultation that went through all of the options for the type of contract. This was after we made a decision that this was an infrastructure for the future and it needed to be future-proofed. During the consultation we received more than 100 responses from the public and operators. In December, before we went through the procurement process, we made the decision this would be a gap-funded model to design, build, operate and finance for 25 years.