Part of 3. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:09 pm on 20 June 2018.
I’m grateful to the Llywydd for that response. She will be aware, of course, that it’s been common practice for Assembly Members to use this ability to engage and to meet fellow parliamentarians, not only in Brussels, but in countries that are member states of the European Union, with some flexibility under the Commonwealth approach in order to visit countries that are further afield, although Malta isn't particularly far and neither is Cyprus. But in the context of this new strategy, will there be greater encouragement to use these connections as the usual channels in terms of Assembly Members being able to rely on the Government’s engagement and then reporting back to this place—perhaps we as individual Members will be more duty-bound to maintain these networks, because learning from best practice in other nations will continue to be important, Brexit or not?