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That concludes the reporters' reports so, with apologies to the press—we have not taken up much of your time this morning—we move into private session.
It is a perfectly good question.As there are no other points we will write to the Executive with the points that our legal advisers have raised, plus Murray Tosh's point.
She addressed the question of how we can get governance to work in that way, beyond simply talking about it. Professor Brown indicated that the task force will be an independent body and that she would like to speak to the Local Government Committee at some point.
It is for this body to decide how best to scrutinise ministers, when we meet and so on, but I would like to make a point about where the work is being done.