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Originally posted by NickyTheInvesta:
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I made an FOI request to DECCWW for documents relating to the delay in the referral decision. I expect that the documents will be on their discllosure log shortly, and when they are i will link them. The key takeaways, the referral decision timeframe has been extended until tommorrow (8 Nov) - Sanjay objected to the extension, however, and this is a quote from the response back to Sanjay 'the additional time is required to ensure that any decisionmade by the department is as legally robust as possible. Unfortunately, this will require extratime beyond the standard 20 business-day timeframe as we need to liaise with both our Legalteam and relevant line areas. We feel that this is in the best interest of both the department andCatalina, as this advice will provide greater legal certainty that any approval provided by thedepartment will be upheld'. Now, why they want to dot their i's and cross their t's, well you can make your own assumptions about that, but i find this comment in a briefing on this matter to be quite telling:
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I think the Government has had plenty of time to make a final decision on this matter, if they want more time on this matter they are obviously going to raise it to the Ministers dept. Which will then restart the process. Seems like a never ending cycle, why are they so slow with their process? Im not sure if its just me being optimistic but are they just dragging their feet since its going to be approved?
(20min delay)