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We are looking closely at whether it makes economic sense to go with just two regions and we are consulting on what the best regional fit might be. As Christine May has pointed out, there is regional structural planning and increasing co-operation.
If that is consensus, I would not like to see us when we disagree.To respond to every point that members have raised would take me the best part of two hours.
However, it is obviously good practice constantly to review the work of the inner house and the outer house and the best use of judges and their time. I think that Mike Pringle has a question.
I share Ted Brocklebank's views. I am disappointed, from the point of view that we were ready to come back after recess and start work on the bill, given that we have done many months' preparatory work.