Officials also said the Parliament would have an opportunity to “feed in points” during the consultation on the national plan, which would include the proposed specified functions.viRural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee, Official Report, 3 November 2021, col. 11
The Committee also raised this point with the Cabinet Secretary who said that the negative procedure was considered “the most effective way of making changes to the list of specified functions” as “we could be talking about quite detailed and lengthy lists that we might want to modify over time”.ixRural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee, Official Report, 23 February 2022, col. 8
Officials added that the negative procedure had been chosen “after taking into account the things that are usually reserved for the affirmative procedure such as the creation of criminal offences or new...