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It can often be the humane thing to dispatch them because they are self-evidently going to die in perhaps another hour or day, or, in some cases, even a week.
I appreciate that the costs are potentially not measurable at the top end, but the lack of clarity on the benefits leaves the committee in a difficult position, particularly as other witnesses used the figures in the regulatory impact assessment to substantiate their evidence.
Again, there is a question in my mind about whether, with a programme of such scale and complexity, that would do any more than simply give a top-level set of assurances. Your points about deeper assurance are germane, in that context.
I think that there was, in respect of the financial memorandum, confusion around the commissioner’s explanation to me and colleagues about whether lobbying complaints in themselves were capable of absorption, or whether it was the fact that the additional functions—on top of what we understood to be enhancements to the commissioner’s remit—would no longer b...
Our universities are excellent—we know that many of them sit in the top 200 universities in the world. I understand the desire for more democratisation, which we support, but the bill includes some fundamental proposals that might be challenged.
The reason why there is a lower estimate on that is that I fully expect the industry either to stop selling the smaller multipack of four or to only sell the top-selling multipack, which they will be able to do on a volume discounted price on the basis of its being sold elsewhere and not within the store.