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We will have either to demonstrate cost neutrality or not, as the case may be. If it is a "not", I am not sure whether all of us will be able to agree to it.
The committee agreed to seek comments from the Home Secretary. He replied on 8 May and a copy of his detailed reply is attached to the papers.The response deals with the issues that were raised by the petition.
I realise that the Transport and the Environment Committee's report was a report to the lead committee, the Rural Affairs Committee, and that it may not, technically, have been a matter for the Executive.
I must say to the minister that although this document may make the briefcases of businessmen heavier, I am not so sure it will set business hearts beating.
We would like them to work with the commission, which may give them guidance and help them with certain things, but the standards commission will decide what it wants to investigate.