Lord McIntosh made it clear that the London Government had not yet decided whether there should be a reduction in the number of MSPs. A source was quoted as saying:"Although the Scottish Parliament is perfectly entitled to debate reserved matters and Westminster, devolved matters, the fact is, MPs have never debated devolved issues while Holyrood has so far held 16 debates on reserved matters".The point of that was to say that MSPs were wasting their time and could not be overworked.