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I am not in a position to judge whether that evidence is correct or is the best evidence and it is difficult to study such things. The bill will give cohabitation a new status—one cannot create a new entity in law without creating a new status.
For the most part, those are new powers for agencies to consider in the light of local strategies, local circumstances and the available alternatives, rather than new duties imposed on the agencies.
I ask members to check that their mobile phones and pagers are switched off.We have a short agenda today. First, I welcome Brian Adam as a new member of the committee and ask whether he has any interests to declare.
How would that concern by allayed by that new role for the Crown? According to the Executive, the Crown would not just be left as ultimate superior, but would have to be given a new role as a public guardian.