Mr. Andrew Munro:

I hear what the Deputy is saying. As the head of a legislative division, I can tell him that we do not do this by design. It puts extreme pressure on the team. It is down to the urgency of the matters. These judgments could not be left unresponded to because of the importance of the matters involved. It happens. Legislative divisions keep things under review. An issues arises, for example, a typographical error is spotted in the European Arrest Warrant Act, and a colleague will urgently await an opportunity to put it into the next criminal justice or miscellaneous provisions Bill. With respect to consideration by the Houses, there is little of substance. It points out a typographical error and fixes it. We do not do these things by design, but once we have to do a Bill urgently, we take the opportunity to fix little things like this. I have seen miscellaneous provisions Bills move quickly. I have also seen them grow legs and take three or four years to get through. There were issues in the last one we completed in 2023 for which work had commenced on the heads ten years earlier. They were just waiting for the right vehicle and then they were moved along. It is not by design. We have plenty of work to do. We do not design this to make our July busier than it would otherwise be. It really is a response to the urgency and importance of the issues.