My apologies, but we cannot have unanimous consent in these virtual meetings. We must have a recorded vote, so unfortunately we have to go through the recorded vote.
I will turn to the clerk.
(Amendment agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])
We will now do a recorded vote on the motion, as amended.
(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])
With that, we will now move to our witnesses.
Witnesses, thank you very much for your patience.
As we are running a little late on time, I'm going to give you a quick heads-up, as a reminder. Please make sure that you are on the correct channel for the language that you will be speaking. When you see this yellow card, you have 30 seconds remaining in your intervention. The red card means there is no more time for your intervention. Each witness group will be given five minutes to present, after which we will go through rounds of questions.
I'm going to introduce the witnesses when they speak so we can save some time.
We will start with Mr. Houlden.
You have the floor for five minutes.