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If the Borders railway is not built, there will still be new housing in the Borders. If we look at Peeblesshire, we see that it is not just the railway that drives new housing.
As I said, we will finalise the report early in the new year. We are not due to launch it until the end of January, which gives everyone time to submit their ideas.
In her late paper, Rosemary Byrne raises a new point about the support that members who wish to introduce a bill receive from the non-Executive bills unit and so on.
To an extent, it also applies in all EU member states. Any new instruments on conflict of law rules and on jurisdiction would have to take that into account.
We are getting just one side of the story. This is not a new situation, as I remember that 15 or 20 years ago there was a problem with getting replacements for wardens—it is not always easy to fill the posts.