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Recognising the role that Select Committees can play in scrutinising and improving policy, the Government are committed to ensuring that they have notified the relevant Select Committee at the start of the consultation period. The Minister will have already laid a Statement before Parliament announcing the review of an NPS, regardless of the anticipated procedure to be used. Should a Select Committee publish a report within the timeframe of the public consultation period, the Government will take those views into account before the updated statement is laid before Parliament for 21 days, where it can be scrutinised by either House. At the end of the reflective amendment process, the NPS, as amended, will still need to be laid in Parliament for 21 days, during which time the House of Commons can resolve that the amendment should not be proceeded with.