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We will try to arrange with the minister a more appropriate time for the formal briefing, so that members can get to it. Simon Watkins and I are working on that with Iain Gray.
For example, a committee might want to get through a bill and get on with the rest of its work but finds that it is tied because it is waiting for a report from a secondary committee.