Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 21 March 2017.
Well, first of all, there’s been no formal response to the White Paper that we have produced. Secondly, the great reform Bill, as it’s termed, is designed to be a Bill that will preserve—we are told—EU law in the jurisdictions of the UK and the laws of the different parts and different nations of the UK. If that’s all it does, then it’s sensible. However, what we would not accept—in fact, we would oppose this tooth and nail—is any suggestion that there will be a clawback of existing powers, or that powers that return from Brussels should sit, even for a period of time, in Westminster. That is something that we will guard against very strongly, and we will examine the great repeal Bill very closely to make sure that that does not happen. And we will not support that if that is proposed as part of that Bill.