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We discussed the Housing (Scotland) Bill during the legal briefing. Our agreed position is that we want to raise a number of points and that we would welcome an opportunity to interview witnesses from the Executive—and in particular the Executive's lawyers—in order to clarify various points such as the intention behind certain sections of the bill and the direction in which the Executive wants to take matters.
We could give the Executive a flavour of the discussion that we had so that it is aware of the territory that we will be asking about.
We will write to the Executive politely, asking representatives to come to the committee and indicating the points that we are likely to want to discuss with them next week.
We should indicate that we are happy to see a bill that runs to almost 100 pages in length, which is more in line with our thinking on having the principal provisions in the bill rather than in regulations.
I am sure that we can do that.
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