Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:26 pm on 2 May 2018.
Clearly, acting in defiance of the consent of the Assembly would pose a constitutional crisis, so there's no question around that. The agreement, which is a political agreement—although it has legal aspects: the amendments themselves, the reference to the Supreme Court; those are all legal steps, needless to say—the agreement actually includes the application of the Sewel convention to the regulation-making powers, which wasn't previously a feature of the Sewel convention. In fact, it goes beyond that and it sets out a specific process by which those regulations are then debated and approved in Parliament. So, it is a political agreement, it is necessarily a political agreement, but it incorporates very specific legal actions, which we expect to be undertaken.