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Assuming that the bill is enacted within the proposed timeframe, section 3(2) provides for board membership to increase to 26 for a period until 1 July. The provision enables all members to see out their term in office before the new members take over.Secondly, the bill does not reconfigure ward boundaries.
My recollection is that the letter would not be put in the Official Report. Currently, if the minister responds to a parliamentary question by saying, "I will write to the member," the reply does not go into the Official Report.
For example, at the Royal Ordnance factory site in Bishopton all parties, including the site owners, are genuinely ignorant as to whether contamination is present.
The convener then asked:"Do members agree to make a formal approach on that basis?"—Official Report, Rural Affairs Committee, 26 September 2000; c 1171.The Official Report records that committee members indicated agreement.