I appreciate that the Minister is seeking to reassure the Committee, but the difficulty is that we are hearing the reassurance that the provision will be applied only to minor detail from a Minister who is here now, in January 2006. That does not provide any insurance policy whatever against the suggestion of the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale that a future politician or group of politicians will use it to effect major upheaval and retrospective revision of legislation. Without labouring the debate, is there any reassurance whatever in the phrasing of the legislation that will prevent the wholesale use of the provision by a less sensitive or less scrupulous Administration?
Government of Wales Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lembit Opik
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 23 January 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Government of Wales Bill.
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