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This committee’s report will help give the Scottish people some clarification as to where their best interests might lie. There is not going to be a clear answer.
The vast majority of comments related to things that had come from the programme—it is best not to mention its name, so that it does not get any more publicity.
From my simplistic perspective, the simplest route is probably the best one: to dispose of the consent requirement in the 2009 order and to dispense with part 2 of the bill.
I assure Patricia Ferguson that members of the committee will make their best efforts to fulfil her expectation that aspects of her bill will be progressed in the Government’s bill.
To be honest, the two-stage process that we have talked about is the best practice that operates in some situations just now, and we are looking to formalise that best practice.
Although the Government still believes that independence is the best way forward for Scotland, we respect the result of the referendum and the view that the people of Scotland expressed democratically in it.