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We have had regular meetings with Home Office officials and we discussed the policy proposals that we put to our draftsmen and the drafts of the bill that we received from them.
You seemed to say that you did not think that there should be an Official Report of the legal briefing part of the meeting, but I got the impression that what you said earlier contradicted that.
I will explain why I think it would be useful for us to appoint a reporter. If members have read the Official Report of the meeting of the Public Petitions Committee at which PE370 was considered, they will know that claims and counter-claims are being made.
The measures are also partly about working politically—at a ministerial level—to examine the different portfolios. Mainstreaming is an issue—our officials work with officials in other departments on that.
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Date answered:
10 August 2005