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As amended in the Standing Committee, further considered.

We, too, oppose these amendments, essentially because it seems to us that the clause already contains provisions that encapsulate them. There is no point, as the hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead) said, in gilding the lily. First, clause 15(2) says clearly that the Secretary of State should deal with what steps are appropriate. That, I hope, would include cost—perhaps I am betraying my economics background. Subsection (3) says that"““the Secretary of State must have regard, in particular, to any matters which would prohibit or inhibit the use of any dynamic demand technology in any circumstance””," and I should have thought that cost is clearly a factor that could prohibit or inhibit the use of such technology. Certainly, before I buy something I usually like to know the cost of it. It is unnecessary to proceed any further with the amendments, and we should reject them.