Thank you, Presiding Officer. I'm very pleased to be able to respond to this report and I want to thank and congratulate the committee for producing a detailed and meaningful analysis of the current situation in terms of inter-governmental relations and inter-parliamentary relations, and for a clear statement of the reforms that are needed in order to put these relations on a firmer footing. It's my pleasure to confirm that the Welsh Government agrees with the set of recommendations, which are very convincing, from the committee. I'm going to focus the majority of my comments on the recommendations for improving the relationships between Governments, but I also want to talk a bit about the relationships between the Parliaments, and about the broader context for inter-governmental relations.

In April, the majority of clauses of the Wales Act that Dai Lloyd mentioned will come into force, noting a new chapter in our status as an Assembly. Many of the chains that have prevented us from being able to make decisions on our own issues will disappear increasingly after that, and we'll be able to become a full Parliament and decide how many Members we have, how they should be elected and who should have the right to vote.