3. Legislative Consent Motion on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:15 pm on 15 May 2018.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 4:15, 15 May 2018

Llywydd, I am very glad that everything that we have negotiated will, indeed, apply to the Scottish Government, just as we agreed with the Scottish Government that had it been possible to agree on any further advances in the agreement they would have applied to all three nations as well. I say nothing against the Scottish Government and the efforts that it put into reaching the point that we have been able to reach today. 

As well as the new ground that we have broken in relation to devolution, the agreement begins the essential process of reforming the way in which business is conducted between the constituent nations of the United Kingdom. That is why the amended Bill, and the inter-governmental agreement that goes with it, does both things we set out to do. It safeguards devolution and it safeguards the future of a successful United Kingdom, and that's why, emphatically, I ask Members to support it this afternoon.