Through you, Madam Chair, I'd be very happy to respond.
The 300-pound limit was set so as to deliberately exclude gifts that are given by grateful constituents—bunches of flowers, boxes of chocolates, homemade cakes and so on. On many, many occasions, constituents will insist on a member of Parliament having a small token gift. It seems to us that it would be inappropriate to register those, because people would be constantly falling foul of the requirement to register a very small token gift. That's why the limit was set as it is.
Now, the interesting thing, of course, is that in the U.K. our ministers have a different requirement to register things. There are different levels of registration. One thing the committee on standards would like to do is streamline this so that there aren't two registers and different requirements for ministers and for members of Parliament.
Forgive me for being so candid, but I think it would be very challenging for members of your Parliament to be continually registering small token gifts of $30. That seems to be a lot of work for very little return. The opportunities to influence the words or actions of a member of Parliament with a bottle of wine or a bunch of flowers seem quite small.