Mr. Damien McCallion:

This was part of a wider negotiation and we could not look at this issue in isolation. We were negotiating a contract for the future of the programme. The programme, at that stage, was on the verge of collapse so we looked at that in the whole. Our priority for the Manchester facility was to get assurance that the performances of the screeners in the laboratory were included within the MedLab screening performance which we are assured they were. We looked at it in that context to ensure there were no issues from a performance perspective.

In a wider context, we had to negotiate around-----