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Ministers should not be provided with powers on the basis that there may be an incompatibility or that it may be expedient to use those powers for whatever purpose.
Any research will be purely up to us. We may want to ask SPICe to consider whether any useful information can be gathered, or we may want to commission further research.
When will the consultation period end? I suggest 18 May, as the final public meeting is on 15 May and we should allow a couple of days for people who are stimulated by that meeting to write in.