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I defer to officials on specific timing, but we plan to get the consultation launched early in the new year. It is important to remember that this is all in connection with debts that have not been paid. 09:45 It was assessed that an equality impact assessment was not required.
I had previously checked that, but the truth emerged only after the story had been in the news. I should have pressed harder; perhaps I should have been less willing to believe what I had been told.
That guidance has been in place for some time and, therefore, we would regard that as an on-going requirement of directors of education, rather than something that is new and has arisen specifically in response to the petition.
The balance sheet will provide the Government and Parliament with a powerful new tool to support evidence-based policy making at the interface of several strategic areas.
How do you see the interaction between what are effectively new freedom of information requests arising in that period and the risk that the pause could be undermined because the request is treated as being new, which triggers a fresh 20-day period?
We should close the petitions now; it is up to the petitioners to lodge them again once the new Government has been formed. I think that that is the right way forward.