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If the Scottish Government chooses to introduce an additional welfare benefit, will that be used in the assessment for universal credit, for example? How will universal credit payments operate in Scotland when additional benefits are taken into account?
The net result was that not a very large number of people expressed an opinion. I am glad that a very, very large number of people have now expressed an opinion and that they clearly knew what they were voting on—there can be no doubt about that.
In promoting such a wide agenda as the hydro nation agenda, it is difficult to find the right words to express in legislation what you are trying to do.
I will move on to my final question for now. The committee has previously expressed concern, on a general level, about the time that elapses between bills passing and the provisions coming into force.
For those reasons, on 13 November, I wrote to the committee saying that I wanted to take the time to fully reflect the views expressed in our approach, and that I was not seeking to start stage 2 today.