Rural Payments Agency

My hon. Friend is entirely right to say that the key issue now is to give farmers as much certainty as we can. Nothing would be worse than to give them information that was less than reliable. I would also say to my hon. Friend, as I should have said to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne) a moment ago, that we are in touch with the banks. They understand that the payment window runs until June, and they have hitherto given us no indication of any difficulties that they had not anticipated.