Mr. Gerry Light:

Again, drawing from my experience on the commission, I am not too sure how possible it would be to drill down into each individual firm, at least from the perspective of the commission. It is the case that this matter was on the agenda. In the past, we have tended to sit down every year and identify what relevant research projects we want to commission. There is a fairly substantial budget available as I have said and it was always my objective on the commission to ensure we spent that budget on relevant research projects because it was vitally important. We cannot on one hand argue that there was a dearth of information while not using the resources available to us. Given the diverse nature of the employers that we are dealing with within the Low Pay Commission's remit, we tend to look at it from a central viewpoint as opposed to an individual firm viewpoint.