Ms Caroline Timmons:

Without getting into specifics, where county councils come to us and say they have a number of applications and they fear they will exceed their allocation for the year, we absolutely will look at that with them, and if we can find the money within the budget, we will absolutely do that with them. We would probably have to assess on a case-by-case basis why that was. What we want at the minute is for there to be no particular backlog of applications, so we are quite focused on that. If a particular local authority wanted to talk to us, the door would definitely be open.