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Government of Wales Bill

My Lords, they are not actually proposing to do that but they are proposing to change the system that they themselves installed in 1998 and it is generally believed that that change will be to the disadvantage of the minority parties. This is a very important Bill for Wales and it is very important that we should get it right. My colleagues in the other place did not vote against Second Reading of the Bill and it is not our custom to do so here. Our wish as the Official Opposition is to see the performance of the National Assembly and its Government improved for the benefit of the people of Wales, and we shall therefore need to subject this Bill to careful and constructive scrutiny. It is a constitutional Bill and I am glad that the Government agree that it must be dealt with on the Floor of the House, as it was in the other place.