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The plant, which is coming on stream next year and will, I think, cost £30 billion, will take the raw materials, produce the chemicals and then move on the next stage of producing paint, plastic and cosmetics—the works—for export abroad.
I clarify that when I mentioned redrafting I was talking about the redrafting that we did of the consultation draft in order to produce the present draft. We are not planning to do much more redrafting at this point.
Let me tell you, there was a cottage industry in the civil service south of the border and up here with people producing information. If we needed to know about a particular tax or welfare provision, we got experts in the Department for Work and Pensions, the Treasury or the Scottish Government to produce information...
We chose this career—we may have often fallen into it rather than choosing it—and we are engaged in it. Shelter has produced brilliant reports about the effects of homelessness on children.
I hope that members who could not sign the proposal or who chose not to do so will unite behind a bill that has been pretty well scrutinised and has produced good options. I talked about the common sense of the debate about and scrutiny of the proposal.