Recommendation 2

The Government has failed to respect the value of Parliamentary scrutiny in this process. It refused to listen to our concerns with its initial timescales until it was too late for us to utilise additional time effectively. The issues considered in the Report would have been better, and more comprehensively, examined and put to the test had the Government been open about the arrangements and told us, from the very start, that the deadline for producing our findings was to be 21 July, rather than 24 June. (Conclusion, Paragraph 7)