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There is a danger that, if we continually legislate for new things and make new things happen, we will never have the time to bed down the new things that we are currently doing and that might be shown to work.It is a case of things' becoming fashionable.
On resuming— Before we proceed with business, I take this opportunity to inform members that I am to be in Canada on Wednesday 25 October and Thursday 26 October. Accordingly, I trust that members will grant me leave of absence.
To ask the Presiding Officer which members of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, if any, have carried out any visits outside Scotland in connection with the Holyrood Project, and the dates and costs of any such visits.
If it were announced that that line was to be electrified, that company would not be too happy, as it would then have to buy a whole raft of new trains. Railtrack does not have an incentive to electrify.
Members have a copy of an extract from that committee's 16th report. I understand that, at its meeting of 10 May, the Subordinate Legislation Committee considered a letter that it received from the Executive on the first instrument, SSI 2005/216.