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Why are we asking all these detailed questions, especially bearing in mind the fact that we have had two visits recently from the minister?Perhaps the convener will comment on the letter.
The committee can take more issues forward this way and members will have the opportunity to influence the final report. Ultimately, there may be a point at which we will have to agree to disagree and have a vote on a fundamental issue.
The committee can take more issues forward this way and members will have the opportunity to influence the final report. Ultimately, there may be a point at which we will have to agree to disagree and have a vote on a fundamental issue.
If anything or anybody is being brought into disrepute, it is new Labour. When the Tories were in power, it was new Labour that led the fight against privatisation.
We will issue a survey early in the new year and will try, in presenting the findings of that survey, to tease out the views of back benchers and to get different perspectives from the various political groups.
I do not quite see Iain Smith's argument against the proposal. He thinks that the new wording would introduce unclarity, but surely there is unclarity at the moment, which is what is causing the dispute between the two lots of lawyers.