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For the benefit of broadcasting staff, I will call each member in turn, in a pre-arranged order, to ask their questions for a block of up to nine minutes.
Because of the challenges of managing a virtual meeting such as this one, we will take questions in a pre-arranged order. I would be grateful if questions and answers are as succinct as possible.
In turn, that would require a bit of pre-preparation. I mention that as a specific example of how, working together in Scotland as a team, we can keep the restrictions now but work and prepare for the recovery.
We are concerned about the comparatively low level of take-up of settled status and issues to do with pre-settled status. Overall, this is a difficult and very worrying time for EU citizens who live in Scotland.
Jackie Baillie wishes to say something. I am pre-empting your next question, convener, when you will ask whether members are content for Dean Lockhart to withdraw amendment 15.
I will be candid and say that that is a practicality that we must explore now, given that we do not want a gap in provision. It would be presumptuous of me to pre-empt the committee’s decision, so we are engaged in that territory.
However, I will see him this afternoon when I am in the Welsh Government offices to have our pre-meeting, as we sometimes do. We will discuss a range of issues that will come up in the JMC, on most of which we will agree, I am absolutely sure.
It would include a report on any consultation, and it would include an explanation of the instrument, the reasons for making it, the pre-withdrawal law that is being modified by it and its effect on retained EU law.