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A response was eventually received from the Executive on 17 August, during the summer recess. It was passed to the petitioner on the same day, as he had asked for a copy of the reply to be sent to him as soon as it arrived and wanted to refer to it in the material that he is preparing for a conference on the issues raised in the petition.
That is why we delayed dealing with this section until our last meeting before the recess. For our meeting in January, can we check to see whether we need to add anything?
However, its record included the two biggest recessions since the second world war, the introduction of the iniquitous poll tax and mass unemployment, which it used quite deliberately as an economic tool.
The same debate has been going on about hunting, with people asking what will happen to all the dogs. To date, we have had no experience of that at all.