All legislation should pass the merit test of doing what it says on the tin, and that's particularly essential when that is emergency legislation. So, our amendments sought to ensure that this would be the case. It is therefore both regrettable and concerning that all but one of these were defeated, and, in consequence, that avoidable allegations about the First Minister's motives are bound to be raised if he does choose to exercise the powers given to him by this Bill. The people deserve better. We understand that the Welsh Government needs some flexibility if coronavirus cases surge in the weeks preceding the current election date. However, the UK Government has made it clear that local and police and crime commissioner elections will be taking place on 6 May, with a robust delivery plan that minimises the risk of spreading the coronavirus, and the Welsh Government should be putting all its efforts into ensuring that this also happens for the Senedd election.

The Welsh Government have failed throughout this Bill's process to state what the criteria would be to trigger a delay in the election, and it refused to back our proposals, except for welcome support for one amendment, at each stage, to include this in the Bill. For these reasons, we will be abstaining on this Bill.