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We have agreed to a meeting with our Westminster counterparts to discuss the best ways forward and to find the best combined strategy, to which Sylvia Jackson referred.
We have spoken about community planning and the role of consultation. There is no point in twin-tracking things and then, at some point, saying that we need to bring them together.
The committee has a report from Frank McAveety, which provides further information on areas of spending that the committee identified at its meeting on 26 February. The report is essentially for the information of members.
If the problem exists, it may not be as big a deal as I am being told, but we should look into it. Paragraphs 25 and 26 of Maureen Macmillan's report describe ecological balance and the perceived lack of such balance.