Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:36 pm on 17 November 2020.
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. I thank Mick Antoniw for his contribution on behalf of the committee. I echo the points he makes about the increasing complexity of Welsh law as a consequence of some of these amendments, which need to be introduced just to make the statute book function effectively. And I know the committee understands that making the amendments in one set of regulations contributes at least to the extent that it's within our control to do so—to keep the complexity to a minimum.
I acknowledge the point that he makes about the introduction of opportunity for Members to debate motions on consent. It is of course open to Members to bring those motions in the usual way. The alternative to the mechanism that we are proposing here, of course, in the absence of Ministers' powers to make these amendments ourselves in Wales, would, in practical terms, have been primary legislation on a comparatively narrow issue here for the statute book in Wales. But I commend the motion to the Senedd, Dirprwy Lywydd.