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It would be valuable for the committee to have an early-warning mechanism that enabled us to monitor and track the progress towards legislation. Nevertheless, I take your point that the best opportunity for our intervention is perhaps at stage 2.
I have already argued clearly for such a consultation, which would include, but go beyond, that point. I want to add to the point that Jane Ryder made on members' interests.
It is up to the committee to decide the best approach. It is important that we speak to ministers rather than only officials at some point because there has been no opportunity to question them about the strategy since it was published—the parliamentary debate preceded the publication of the strategy.