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Government of Wales Bill

Could we have a clear explanation of this, for another reason? I am rather minded to support the amendment, which seems merely to point out the nonsense of so much of the interior tergiversations that are going on in this clause. The thing that concerns me is the role of the Counsel-General. If he can be shown to be an independent figure able to take a proper legal view of what the Assembly wants, there may be an argument for saying that the Assembly, separate from the Counsel-General, should not have an application to the Supreme Court. The Minister must convince us that the Counsel-General will not be a creature of the Government but a proper servant of the Assembly. If he can so convince us, it would be perfectly proper to leave the Counsel-General that access, because of his legal position, but the Minister would have to be significantly more convincing than either the explanatory notes or what we have heard so far from him. I hope that he will help me.