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Government of Wales Bill

I will not give way because I wish to give the Minister the opportunity to make his winding-up speech and we are having short wind-ups anyway. I thank hon. Members who expressed words of greeting to my hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham as she takes over her task as shadow Welsh Secretary. I look forward to the debates in the Committee of the whole House when we will have the opportunity to consider the detail of the Bill. However, the Bill is sadly wanting. I am afraid that it is a typical piece of new Labour tinkering with constitutional propriety. It is a dishonest piece of legislation because it says that it does something, yet in fact does something rather different and far more fundamental to the constitution of this country.