Minister, I start from the premise that I want inter-ministerial and inter-governmental working to be effective and efficient. It's in all our interests. But if there were ever a concerted and deliberate attempt to undermine the newly installed machinery of government, it would include lack of communication, lack of timely sharing of information and timely engagement with devolved Governments in a spirit of co-operation and transparency, lack of commitment to regular meetings and meaningful agenda setting for those meetings, and thereby the lack of the opportunity for open and frank discussion at those meetings.

Minister, from the statement today, this has characterised the approach by the UK Government to border controls, and, indeed, the unilateral decision by the Foreign Secretary to introduce to the UK Parliament a Northern Ireland Protocol Bill that explicitly seeks to breach the obligations that the Prime Minister has himself signed up to. As you set out in your statement today, Minister, this action is once again wholly at odds with the ways of working envisaged in the inter-governmental relations review and the common frameworks. It's in the interests of as all, not simply for biosecurity, but for broader economic prospects, for there to be a significant improvement in the way that Governments within the UK respect and work with each other. So, Minister, what hopes do you have, based on this, which falls today in the shadow of the additional announcement yesterday of the proposal by the UK Government to override legislation passed here in this Senedd, of the inter-ministerial machinery now working?