Are there any other requests for briefing? If not, the next meeting will be on 26 October. Stephen, is there sufficient business for a meeting on 26 October? There is no point in dragging members into a meeting just for the sake of it when we could wait until the meeting on 9 November.
There will be the committee's regular scrutiny function of papers received since we last carried out a sift. We wanted to put the sixth economic report on regional development on the agenda for discussion on 26 October. The meeting after that on 9 November will be partly taken up with the delegation from Saxony-Anhalt. To be fair, we would want to allocate a fairly substantial proportion of the meeting to visitors from that far away. I leave it to members to decide whether there is sufficient business for 26 October.
I suspect that we should wait until 9 November.
With great respect to our visitors, we will not be giving them three hours of the committee's time.
Are we agreed to have the next meeting on 9 November? That is agreed. We will notify the members who have left early so that they do not turn up on 26 October. Thanks for your attendance.
Meeting closed at 16:11.
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