Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I intend to keep my remarks this afternoon brief, but I do wish to welcome the fact that the Welsh Government has tabled a motion for debate on this statutory instrument consent memorandum. The reasons for this is that it is an important point of principle that the Senedd makes a decision on whether to permit UK Ministers to amend primary legislation in devolved areas.

As a committee we considered the memorandum at our meeting on 18 May 2020, and we laid our report on 2 June. Now, as the Minister has said, the regulations that are the subject of the memorandum ensure that the Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020 and the EU legislation incorporated into domestic law under that Act are treated in the same way as EU legislation incorporated into domestic law under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. So, as stated in our report, we are content with the memorandum.