Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 20 June 2018.
I refer the Member to the documents that the Welsh Government has published: originally, the White Paper that we published jointly with Plaid Cymru and then the subsequent paper that we published on fair movement of people, which I think gives him exactly the answer to the question that he has raised, because we set out in that paper a series of proposals that we think could be brought within the broad umbrella of free movement.
It's one of the myths of the whole EU debate that there are some sort of single standards about what all these freedoms—the four freedoms—actually mean. The way in which freedom of movement is interpreted in different member states varies very considerably from one part of the European Union to another. We set out a series of suggestions that we think would allow us to remain under that broad umbrella, but would have, also, the impact that Jeremy Corbyn pointed to—that freedom of movement must not become freedom to exploit. And there is no doubt that some of those people who voted to leave the European Union did so because they feared that freedom of movement had become a device through which wages were held down and the legal rights that people had were undermined by people being brought across the European continent to be exploited here. We set out a series of proposals to make sure that that doesn't happen and, together, they provide all the answers that the Member needs to the question that he's raised.