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The committee recommends that SSI 2001/214 should be drawn to the attention of the lead committee and the Parliament, because the 21-day rule is breached and that raises the same issues as those arising from the breaching of the 21-day rule in SSI 2001/216. The indicated cost increases raised the question of whether that would constitute an unusual or unexpected use of the enabling power. If members remember, the fees just shot up, but I forget by how many hundred per cent.
We could not calculate by how much.
We thought, however, that the difference in quantity was so large as to constitute an absolute difference and we questioned that.