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Government of Wales Bill

I have been asked to keep my remarks short, so I shall make only one point. We spent the first two hours of our debates today listening to the Government maintain that changes to the electoral system had to be made because the current system was too complicated. Indeed, the right hon. Member for Torfaen (Mr. Murphy) made a fine speech pointing out that members of the public said that the system was too complicated and that nobody understood it, yet the Government want to make a change to the Committee structure of the Welsh Assembly that will clearly be more complicated than the existing system. Not even the right hon. Gentleman could say that it has been called for by any member of the public. In all my years as a Welsh Assembly Member, no one has ever said to me: ““Mr. Davies, I think we should change the way Committee members are chosen and move over to the d’Hondt system.”” I challenge any Member to say that members of the public have said that to them.