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We thought that we should rectify that and give legal effect to a provision that was already in our statutory welfare codes.We decided, on reflection, to leave out of the set of regulations on the third of the extra provisions that we had originally proposed—prohibiting the beak trimming of hens kept in cages.
That might be a way of giving the committees extra leeway.I think that the minister is planning to come back with his final budget, which we cannot amend—we can only propose an entire alternative budget—in the second week of January.
If houses are brought up only to tolerable standard, people may spend the money that they save on extra heating and there will be no reduction of CO2 emissions.
None of us wants meetings to proliferate, but a briefing would have helped to make this meeting more productive.If members receive their papers and want extra information, I am sure that the NAO will be happy to help.
Will the minister and the Executive turn their attention to the sheep industry, where the new rules requiring slaughterhouses to split carcases have imposed huge extra costs and have resulted in many sheep being shot in the fields?
A knock-on effect has been that the board has had trouble staffing the hospital that deals with mental illness because junior staff, when they have been asked to do extra hours as a result of the hospital being short staffed, have refused.
Nevertheless, orthopaedic waiting lists have been extended time and again, despite extra capacity being put in at the Golden Jubilee hospital and other places.
Given that local authorities are to have an extra 21 days' notice from march organisers, it seems only reasonable that march organisers should have an extra five days' notice from local authorities.
I am conscious that, according to the draft budget, there is an extra £50 million to £60 million in the budget for roads maintenance this year, but the overall grant to local authorities is standing still.