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My concern about leaving the matter to the subject committees and telling them to do their best is that we would have a continuation of the existing ad hocery.
We can never agree a timetable, because the Westminster timetable is fluid, as is our own legislative timetable. We can agree as best we can an indicative timetable, but we never set down a hard-and-fast timetable, because such matters are by definition fluid.
However, as John Home Robertson rightly says, the objective is to get into the building, assess how we are doing and do our best effectively to manage the visitor flows, which will be a far bigger issue than the chamber audience will be.
We see our role as interpreting the policy, and trying to read into that policy where the best opportunities are for growth of our businesses, sustainability and jobs.