Mr. Andrew Jackson:

Briefly, I recommend going back to the joint committee's heads of the Bill of 2009 and full text of the Bill of 2010. Those documents are well worth considering. The 2009 heads of Bill examined the idea of financial penalties and incentives, and proposed financial penalties for public bodies and also for private sector operators that did not achieve targets. By the time the full text of the Bill came out in 2010, there had been a movement away from the idea of financial penalties towards incentives. That is something that is worth considering. It is a type of carrot-and-stick approach. There could be a budget as an incentive for Departments to achieve their targets and if they achieve their targets they could get an additional budget. That would be an alternative way of approaching it rather than a deduction by way of a penalty from an existing budget.