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That extends to Scottish ministers a power already available to United Kingdom ministers and extends the range of circumstances under which ministers can make remedial orders.
There is an on-going dialogue between the clerks and officials in the outside agencies to ensure that we are always kept abreast of the way in which they would encourage us to take things forward, and we are open to any suggestions that they have.
For example, the emissions trading scheme has a strong impact in the United Kingdom as a whole in driving business to treat the risk of regulation as an issue.
We have asked our secretariat to take a leaf from the public appointments unit's book. That unit has worked hard in the past four years or so to widen access to public appointments.