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Question: Gavin Andrew Jago - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - Analyst
: I just wanted to -- more just on the planning comments, really, and maybe get a bit more granularity on the outlook numbers. So just, I guess,
looking back to the interim, I think you were talking about maybe 300 average for this year and looking to open 85 in the second half. Now you're
talking about opening 60 by spring. So just trying to square all of that, really, into your comments around issues around planning.
And then maybe, Dean, just about to your point on kind of the resource shortage. Have you got any sense from your discussions with, I guess, with
ministers around whether you've had talent leaving that industry. Because looking back to where we were prepandemic and the site numbers
across the whole industry were, some way, higher. I'm just wondering whether now it's just slow to come back or whether actually there have been
people leaving [on the cusp of the year]. Is going to be a longer-term issue?
Question: Gavin Andrew Jago - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - Analyst
: Okay. And just in terms of, I guess, the outlook numbers for this year are met. I think you're looking at 300 for this year. Would you -- given, I guess,
the land buying and -- that you've done, you got to move north in FY '22, would be looking to hold it...
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