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In the past, we have asked the Executive for a response and advised the relevant committee that we have done that, sending it, for information, a copy of the Official Report that contains our deliberations.
In last month's debate on domestic abuse, Johann Lamont, Malcolm Chisholm's Deputy Minister for Communities, said:"the reality of an experience is whether self-help groups begin to develop".—Official Report, 4 November 2004; c 11629.
I suggest that we now suspend the meeting until 3 o'clock to give the minister time to arrive and to give his officials a couple of minutes to whisper in his ear if they want to do so.
We are seeking consistency in that area. We have met the Commission officials involved in drafting those documents to discuss the issues that they expect to come up with.
Where is the Government's evidence?"—Official Report, House of Commons, Westminster Hall, 20 January 2004; c 407WH.George Lyon pursued the matter through a parliamentary question.
However, Simon Watkins will need to talk to Executive officials about what they are doing. I have spoken to Mike Watson, and Simon Watkins has spoken to the minister's officials.
By way of contrast, it was stressed at the Commonwealth senior officials meeting in Samoa that development and the elimination of poverty work to underpin democratic freedoms.