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The amendments expire the provision on 31 March 2024 so that it is not subject to the expiry date in the bill or any earlier one that could be provided for in regulations.
I will ensure that Gordon Lindhurst gets as much detail as possible on the work that has been done to date. If he is interested, I will ensure that he is kept up to date on these matters.
It is likely that the Justice Committee will arrange an away day for the final week of the recess. I am in a similar situation with the Equal Opportunities Committee.
If it is early June, it would be useful for the committee to deal with the matter before the summer recess to enable us to consider having an early evidence session in September.
After having declined in real terms following the recession of 2008/9 (the charge was frozen in cash terms for four years), the water charge remained unchanged in real terms for ten years, from 2012/13 until 2021/22. 2.37 The water charge declined in real terms between 2021/22 and 2022/23 before the above-inflationary increase in 2024/2025 realigned it with...
There is cross-party agreement on the regulations, but my point is that the regulations were laid the week before the recess and we had only three sessions in which to look at them.
Our final meeting before the summer recess will be tomorrow at 10 am, when we will continue our evidence taking on Dame Elish Angiolini’s report by hearing from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice.