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If powers are not transferring to the new ministers until 1 July, presumably if we have casework or questions that we wish to raise we raise them with the existing Scottish Office ministers?
Lord Sewel, in your paper, you propose that there should be a new stage involving "the Scottish parliament adopting Westminster legislation immediately prior to Royal Assent".Could you give more explanation of how you envisage that working?
We are not asking for anything unusual, although it may be new in Scotland. The committee's previous discussion did not make explicit the fact that the custodial part of a sentence includes punishment and protection of the public.
We can point to certain indicators, the first of which are the latest census figures. We are starting to see the tail end of a gradual decline moving up.
In the context of the establishment of a commission—as opposed to a commissioner in the narrow sense—do you plan to give any advice or do you plan to shift emphasis as a result of the establishment of the new water industry commission as a corporate body?
For example, we welcome the objective of increasing the participation of under-represented groups in sport and also the new resources that have been allocated to indoor facilities.