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Item 8 is on our inquiry into the regulatory framework in Scotland. We have produced another paper to go to the Conveners Group. It gives much more information than did the previous version about why videoconferencing would not be particularly appropriate to our inquiry, and why it would not allow us to produce the quality of product that we would wish. Does anybody wish to add any points to what is contained in the paper, as it has been redrafted?
When would we expect to be told the decision of the Conveners Group?
The Conveners Group meets this Thursday. It is very important that we agree the paper today, so that it can be sent to the group directly. The problem at the previous stage was that the group had a very short time in which to consider the paper as it was drafted then.
In the second paragraph under heading three, "Justification", the greater volume of secondary legislation compared to primary legislation should be quantified to emphasise the point. People do not necessarily recognise the vast difference between the amount of primary legislation and the amount of secondary legislation that we pass.
They do not realise that we are doing serious work. That is the truth.
I gather from the clerk that we are talking about 1,300 statutory instruments, compared with 65 acts.
That is quite a difference.
It is a huge number. We know about the volume of instruments that are going through from our weekly meetings.
Meeting closed at 11:01.