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I would need to check the meeting date, but it is in the diary. What guidance on the bill will be available for stakeholders and members of the public?
On quite a narrow but very important point, in essence you could not plan the schedule of work sufficiently early because you did not know the dates. Although you knew the drop-dead date for completion, you could not start on the activities until you had things from the UK Government.
Delaying a report until the best-before or use-by date allows the product to go through the market to the consumer, whereas an earlier report would have prevented it from reaching the consumer.
The minister is correct to say that we have discussed the matter and have reached agreement on the commencement date. The bill has a commencement date of September 2011, which amendment 113 seeks to change to the end of December 2011.
Mr Gordon might well have done so, but I know that I did, too, because the Parliament was in recess at the time and I was at home waiting patiently for the birth of my son.