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I do not have that level of detail with me today. I would be happy to talk to officials and get back to you on that.

As I said, I am happy to have an open dialogue. A lot of the work that we will do together is stuff on which we should be able to get the process right and just do it.

I do not know about my officials, because they have not been here today.

We could probably come back to you with the detail of the position.

To take an example, in its letter, the SLC mentioned trust law. I understand that the Minister for Community Safety will shortly write to Lady Paton about a bill on that, so we will be able to take that forward. I think that it is reasonable for the committee to infer a reference to the SLC’s trust law report in the programme for government.

I am going round in circles here but, all in all, I am trying to say that I am taking seriously the need to find a way forward. As Minister for Parliamentary Business, I am not too keen on there being too many members’ bills kicking about, because I am trying to manage the five-year programme. If we can find a way to manage the SLC commitments that we have made and look at some of the other stuff, we will do what we can.

As the convener said, the numbers are not as bad over the period, although some reports are always left.

That is a good start for us both.

There will probably be 22 further UK SI notifications before the end of this year.

Yes, in general, compared to what the session 5 committee received. The two members here who were also members of the previous committee will know the volume of SIs related to the EU that that committee received.

I will take away the detail of your question, and get you a more detailed answer so that I can put your mind at rest in that regard. I will bring that back to the committee, if that is okay.

You are just being a bit of a rascal there, Mr Hoy. The Government would not do anything illegal.

Do you mean the quality of the SSIs?