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Government of Wales Bill

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way. I noticed that the Government in the other place have circulated, in support of the argument the noble Lord has just been advancing, a list of quotations, which includes two from me. I simply make it clear that these were taken out of context and that the quotations I gave were in the context of our going for the single transferable vote and multi-member seats and not for the solution that is in the Bill. It is a bit of a sleight of hand that I should be quoted in aid of a provision which I do not agree with and, indeed, had the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, been pressing for this to be happening in Scotland, the result would have been, in the first Scottish Parliament election, that the Conservative Party, all of whose constituency candidates had to be elected through the list, would have had no seats at all. That is not a system I would have recommended.