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If we assume that the bill passes stage 1, I hope to take at stage 2 the second and third themes of the bill before the summer recess and the first and fourth themes—what you have said relates to them—after the summer recess.
The deadline for submissions to that consultation was 27 September 2003; findings will be released some time after the summer recess. I therefore suggest that we hold on to the petition until the first meeting at which we deal with petitions after the summer recess.
Can we suggest immediate action to be taken after 1 May but before the summer recess, so that changes can be implemented after the recess, notwithstanding the successor committee's examining some of the issues in more detail later?
The Parliament has made great strides in giving advance notice of its recesses. The website has dates on it for recesses up until the beginning of 2003, which is marvellous.
Let us do as Marilyn Livingstone suggests, and pursue the idea of a seminar before the parliamentary debate but after the recess. That is the logical time to hold it.
I am sure that the subject will detain us for several hours.Taking that suggested course of action would give the Executive the summer recess to prepare amendments on the bill's more complex aspects.
We have an agreement to deal with the instruments by 30 March, but we could come back to them straight after the recess, if members would like a longer period of consideration.
We have the Shetland order, and the Solway regulating order was laid before Parliament just before the recess, so it is going through the parliamentary process.
However, they have experienced problems with slippage in the timing and submission of responses as a result of ministerial timings, the parliamentary recess and other internal issues to do with their consultations.