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Finally, paragraph 25 of the schedule provides that regulations made under this schedule are generally subject to the affirmative resolution procedure, with one notable exception: regulations establishing pilot programmes may be made using the negative procedure. Why is this distinction justified? Given that pilot programmes may involve the conferral of substantial new powers and alterations of governance arrangements, why do the Government consider the negative procedure sufficient in these cases? Does this not risk reducing parliamentary scrutiny at precisely a point when new and untested models of governance are being introduced?