<p>The Sewel Convention</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:46 pm on 15 February 2017.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 2:46, 15 February 2017

Thank you, Counsel General, for that comprehensive answer. If I may just seek clarification, in the committee earlier this week, David Jones, the Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union, posited the possibility the great repeal Bill itself might be a short Bill and there might be a number of individual Bills that follow from that. Given what the Counsel General has said about the difference between a legally binding justiciable convention and one which is potent but political, if you like, does he have a view as to whether the nature of the Act, be it a repeal Bill or one focused on European legislation, would be one which is likely to attract a different response from the UK Government from one which might be based on legislation around devolved competencies specifically?