6. 4. Legislative Consent Motion on the Wales Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:49 pm on 17 January 2017.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 4:49, 17 January 2017

In 2011, along with a number of Members of this Assembly, I took part in the ‘Yes for Wales’ steering committee, along with Leanne Wood and Paul Davies and Leighton Andrews and Rob Humphreys. We worked on a cross-party basis to deliver a referendum campaign that promised that laws that only affect Wales should be made in Wales. Two thirds of the people of Wales endorsed that principle. Since then, we’ve become a legislature, and, of the 22 laws passed, we would find that, once this Wales Bill becomes an Act, only eight of them would be able to be passed in the future. Now, we hear a lot from the hard Brexiteers in this Chamber that the results of referenda should be respected, and I would suggest to them that that principle needs to be applied consistently, and the results of the 2011 referendum should also be respected, and not simply the result of the referendum that they are obsessed about—