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Government of Wales Bill

I appreciate that the Minister is seeking to reassure the Committee, but the difficulty is that we are hearing the reassurance that the provision will be applied only to minor detail from a Minister who is here now, in January 2006. That does not provide any insurance policy whatever against the suggestion of the hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale that a future politician or group of politicians will use it to effect major upheaval and retrospective revision of legislation. Without labouring the debate, is there any reassurance whatever in the phrasing of the legislation that will prevent the wholesale use of the provision by a less sensitive or less scrupulous Administration?