Mr. Evan Walker:

I have the dates and list of all the companies we have met. A clear line has to be drawn between engagement, lobbying and capture. It is very clear that we did not have a full public consultation, but I have met firms and groups at least eight times as a full group. Obviously, there will be different views and concerns.

We have gone through all of the submissions. Where we have flexibility, we have outlined our rationale. I do not want to comment on a particular lobby group, but if it has said it we did not engage I have clear evidence of where we have engaged multiple times. The particular group suggested we should have greater flexibility on smaller scale farms. We are bound by the regulation that we can only exclude windfarms up to the point of 1 MW. We have to implement the regulation. We could not go to 10 MW requested.

To be very clear, we have engaged as much as we can and there is a line that policymakers have to be very aware of between engagement and regulatory capture. I still have an objective to deliver for the Government on that. We do our business in the sun. There are clearly areas where groups will disagree with me, but my mandate is to deliver the objective for Government, namely to capture windfall gains while minimising the risk. At some point, that will have to come to a head and we will have to go our separate ways because we will not make everyone in the audience happy all of the time.