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Item 2 is the Government's response to the committee's report on the national planning framework. We have a series of Government responses to committee reports before us today, so the committee has an opportunity to comment on them and on the suggested courses of action that are given with the first three of the responses.
On national planning framework 2, we should formulate a timetable for regular review meetings with the Government—whether six-monthly or annually—once the action plan is published and then monitor and discuss with ministers the implementation and the stages of aspects of the programme and how it fits in with NPF 2. I would like to think that this committee and its responsible successor committees would regard it as an important part of their work to see how the NPF is put into effect and to monitor its progress as set out in the action programme. I would like us to establish with the Government that that becomes an integral part of the institutional framework surrounding national planning frameworks.
That probably brings us to the second point under paragraph 25 of the paper, which asks whether the committee is
Yes.
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