However, because of the decision by the Procedures Committee to change the timing of its inquiry and move quite quickly, it is clear that if we were to commission external research, the schedule would be very tight; it may be too difficult to obtain the research on such a tight time scale.The paper outlines that if we were to commission external research, rather than ask the Scottish Parliament information centre what it can pull together, we would have to seek agreement at the next Conveners Group meeting on 26...