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If consultation is the right thing to do, I can never understand what harm it would do to specify in a bill that the Government of the day shall consult before it does something.
The inquiry might involve some visits and so on, but not every committee member has to attend and the visits do not have to take place on the same days as committee meetings. We have to discuss that when we discuss the remit of the inquiry, once we appoint an adviser.We will discuss the housing bill under the next item.
If so much investment is required, why is central support declining? Today is budget day around Scotland for local councils, and Labour councils are cutting jobs and services, including in education.
Lord James, as a member of the Parliamentary Bureau, could you tell us how the proposal would affect parliamentary programming? I understand that only certain days are given over to committee business and that 16 March is one of them.
Can you confirm that the costs do not apply to inshore vessels or vessels that are fishing within a day's sail of the coast? I can. Is it the case that in other European Union countries Governments have made assistance available to the industry to enable it to comply with these regulations?
If the teaching guidelines are to be reviewed, it is important to say that they should be seen prior to repeal of the section. The other day in the chamber, Alex Salmond and Donald Dewar agreed that.
That enables us to push forward in the delivery of our partnership agreement initiatives as well as those that we identified in the 2002 spending review.