Ms Anne Graham:

We will go through what was involved in the costs in a minute, but we expected to introduce some competitive tension to the PSO bus market, which was a monopoly market. As I said, we wanted to introduce that kind of tension and to have a comparator as against the costs of operating a directly awarded contract. With regard to what was involved in the €14 million, a proportion of that related to support and set-up costs. Approximately €2.2 million related to the authority's set-up costs. This involved the introduction of the ticketing systems and the automatic vehicle location, AVL, systems to support the operation of the services. A contractual set-up cost for Go-Ahead was also part of that expenditure. Also included in the figure of €14.6 million are the PSO regular rural services. A proportion of rural transport services is funded by the PSO to the value of approximately €5.4 million. This covers the regular scheduled services operated and managed by the Local Link offices.