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It is a tribute to your predecessor, Roseanna Cunningham, and to the committee members that they managed to get through so much work before the summer recess. I cannot promise that the pace will let up, but I hope that you will enjoy—if that is the appropriate word—your office.
However, is there any evidence to show that—during, for example, recessions in public spending—the Government has drawn down less European funding so that it can use the rebate to cushion any possible reduction in public spending?
You will be the last person to give evidence before we hear from and question the Minister for Finance after the Easter recess. We are coming towards the conclusion of our deliberations and we will produce a report before the summer recess.You have submitted a memorandum of which all members have a copy.
Before I conclude the public business of the committee this morning, as this is the last meeting before the recess I put on the record my thanks to the committee clerks and to committee colleagues for all their hard work.
Thank you.On the first day of this term—I do not know whether that is what we call the part of the year between recesses—the Parliament debated health.
We have seen rural economies in the Borders and in the Highlands in recession. The Executive's measures are not helping the farmer and the manufacturer to feel better about their circumstances.
However, this order, which was laid on the last day before the Whitsun recess in what was essentially an attempt to sneak it through Westminster, is very worrying.
I never cease to be amazed by the contents of the deep recesses of my learned friend's mind. Curiously enough, that is not a matter that was in the recesses of my mind.