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One of the advantages of what we call baseline reports is that they give us an opportunity to identify best practice and encourage that best practice to be shared across the Executive.
I undertake to obtain their reactions and, if they are still dissatisfied, to meet them to try to reach a shared view on the best way ahead and the best legal wording.
We want to put arrangements in place that have the best chance of success—the best chance of reducing food poisoning outbreaks, the best chance of improving hygiene standards and the best chance of re-establishing consumer confidence—an...
Our job as a legislature is to provide the best evidence base that we can on the issue, and I do not think that we have completely exhausted that point.