No, I don't think you misheard me. We did have existing business continuity plans, in line with the standard plans that I think a lot of legislatures and other businesses have, and just by outrageous coincidence.... There are different aspects of business continuity plans and different scenarios that might unfold, and the coincidence was that as recently as December we had rehearsed our response to a pandemic. I have to qualify that by saying that in no way did we anticipate just the scale of this pandemic.
The purpose of that exercise was to see how we would descale parliamentary business, how we would identify which of the services that we provide as a parliamentary service were absolutely crucial to the continued ability of Parliament to meet, what the absolute minimum number of staff would be needed to deliver those services and how to support home working.
Those were the things that we had got down to a fair level of detail, which gave us some comfort when we started to respond to the unfolding pandemic, but obviously this has taken us to a scale that we didn't anticipate, so we hadn't gone as far as rehearsing remote plenary sessions and remote voting and things like that.