Government of Wales Bill

I am afraid that we do have a mandate. We made it clear in both the UK Labour manifesto and in the manifesto for Wales that we would give enhanced legislative powers to the National Assembly. The hon. Gentleman argues that we are giving primary powers by the back door, but if so, we are doing so very openly because Parliament will decide whether to give the Assembly those powers on each issue. It is not the carte blanche provided for in part 4—which will give the Assembly total discretion in the areas for which it has Executive responsibility—to bring in legislation. That is completely different from part 3.