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The Accounts would then be laid before Parliament before the October recess. 6.4. The Chair thanked Lis Craig and her team for their continuing excellent work on the Annual Report and Accounts. 6.5.
The Committee has agreed to invite you to respond in writing to the summary below of constitutional issues which have arisen during our inquiry and to discuss this response with us before summer recess. The Committee has also agreed to invite the UK Minister for Intergovernmental Relations to do likewise.
This was an almost impossible deadline to meet due to local government elections that took place in May 2022 and the fact that the Council was in recess in July (sign off by local authority political leaders being an essential aspect of the plan).
Negative SSIs require to be laid before the Parliament for at least 28 days (not counting recess periods) before they come into force (the 28-day rule).
I am confident that we have enough time to deal with the statutory instruments after the summer recess. Mr Johnson will be aware that there has been some criticism of the amount of time that we are spending considering instruments before the summer recess and I do not want to add to that in another sphere.