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Furthermore, new national policy statements are required to undergo public consultation. Indeed, it is common practice for them to go through two stages of consultation: the first on the scope and a second on the draft national policy statement itself. The national policy statement is then subject to parliamentary scrutiny, and government cannot proceed until it has laid a report in Parliament responding to any parliamentary resolutions or committee recommendations. Lastly, Members of Parliament have 21 sitting days to raise any objections before the NPS is designated.