Mr. Ian Talbot:

Our chambers around the country recognise that this is an issue. There are lots of efforts and a lot of talk about new business improvement districts, BIDs, being established. There are town centre plans. We would love to see more consistency perhaps across local government and, again, perhaps more authority and investment in local government to make these things happen locally. That is where the impetus for most of this stuff needs to come. It needs to be getting more people locally engaged in what is available and getting things like public transport services that might get them in and out of town centres, for example, and solving dereliction and all those issues. It is circular. So many of these things tie together. However, to go back to the Deputy's core point, the cost of business is very challenging.