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Government of Wales Bill

If I begin by explaining how schedule 5 is set out, it may assist the hon. Lady to understand how the process works. The fields that are set out are those areas in which Executive functions have been given to the Assembly and, following the split that will be introduced by the enactment of this Bill, to Assembly Ministers. They are the fields of Executive competence. The hon. Lady mentions field 13, which is purely about the National Assembly for Wales. In order for the Assembly to be able to carry out its functions, pay its staff and so on, we had to set out in the Bill the matters on which it may legislate if required at as early an opportunity as possible. For all the other fields listed with nothing underneath them, it will be for the process of Orders in Council to determine. The hon. Lady mentioned the two examples that I placed in the Library—legislation on the public administration ombudsman and transport in Wales. If we had not gone for the primary route, that is how an Order in Council would have looked. The transport legislation would have fitted under the field. I do not know which one it is—