Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:32 pm on 6 March 2018.
As the person chairing discussions between the UK Government and the devolved Governments on the EU withdrawal Bill, Cabinet Minister David Lidington MP stated, at Airbus Broughton in Flintshire last week, we must protect the UK internal market whilst respecting devolution. As I noted last week, he also said that eight out of 10 goods lorries leaving Wales go to the rest of the UK, highlighting the importance of the UK common market for Wales, as well as the rest of the UK. Mr Lidington, in Broughton, added that
'we have to ensure, as we are determined to do, that Brexit means more powers going to the devolved governments and not fewer...So our proposal is to amend the Bill before Parliament to make clear that while frameworks are being agreed, the presumption would now be that powers returning from the EU should sit at a devolved level. Westminster would only be involved where, to protect the UK common market or to meet our international obligations, we needed a pause—I stress pause—to give the governments time to design and put in place a UK-wide framework.'
Governments—in plural. Responding to me in the—[Interruption.] Sorry?