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Government of Wales Bill

I thought that I had explained the situation earlier, but I shall try to do so again. The bulkof the fields set out in the schedule arose due to the transfer of Executive powers that followed the enactment of the Government of Wales Act 1998. The fields that the hon. Lady cannot find in schedule 2 to the 1998 Act are those that have been transferred since then either by primary legislation—I cited the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 earlier, which transferred executive responsibility for the fire brigade to the Assembly—or by transfer of functions orders, such as that on animal welfare. There might well be a question about the wording or descriptions used in the Bill, but Executive functions must have come from the 1998 Act, other primary legislation or a transfer of functions order. They could not have come from anywhere else. The Assembly could not have given itself Executive powers without the approval of Parliament in some form.