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After a couple of months, we should be in a position to decide whether we need a committee adviser or whether that appointment would be surplus to our requirements. If the dates for deciding on an adviser are either 5 October or 28 January, we must do so by the first date.
It will be the last meeting before the recess, so we will decide then. I agree with your proposal that the matter should go on the agenda for that meeting.
We have got into the Westminster-style annual parliamentary cycle, which is not even annual; it lasts from the end of the summer recess in September until the start of the next summer recess, which causes unnecessary bottlenecks.
If we keep going with our report, we should be able to secure debating time for it before the summer recess. We should press for debating time for our climate change report, because the debate will flag up all the things that people out there will need to do to make climate change not happen or slow down.