Government of Wales Bill

My Lords, having originally raised the issue, am I right in thinking that this provision was put in the 1998 Act because the Assembly had corporate responsibility and the Audit Committee might therefore not be in a wholly independent position? I would be interested know at least whether the Government, with the new structure of the Assembly, considered doing away with it. One would have thought that the need for it was now much less obvious than under the 1998 Act.