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Perhaps one advantage of starting at the bottom of the table is that the convener gets the last word. I had not fully appreciated that fact when I began.
Local authorities, especially the island ones, link up closely with the agriculture industry and we get their views through that. The committee was set up in 1994, but we established a sub-group for the new scheme.
There is an interesting sequence of events there. There are new headquarters, a big budget overrun and, suddenly, everything is going to get rationalised and transferred to Exeter to make cost savings.
I would be happy to go with the suggested options, to get more information and to get the views of the Rural Affairs Committee and the Health and Community Care Committee.
Westminster will have the opportunity to do that, not us. Let us get matters straight—if we agree to the Sewel motion, we will give Westminster the opportunity to introduce a provision that will allow us to close this loophole across the UK.
We need to spend time and money on getting development right as well as on getting research right.The final key challenge relates to some of the moral and ethical issues that the development of science requires us to face up to.
Members will recall that we considered the regulations on 26 September. We had two main concerns about defective drafting and ambiguity of specific parts of the regulations, which had been picked up by the Subordinate Legislation Committee.