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Government of Wales Bill

I refer to energy, which is not one of the fields at the moment. Suppose the Welsh Assembly Government decided that they would like to control energy policy in Wales. We could have a debate in both Houses of Parliament about whether it would be a good or bad thing for that to be devolved. But the Welsh Assembly Government may have in mind building a nuclear power station here, digging another pit there, putting some offshore wind farms in Cardigan bay and introducing the Severn barrage. But they will not put all those things forward when they say to Parliament that they think it is time that the Welsh Assembly Government should have control over energy policy. So the debate—the pre-legislative scrutiny—would be whether it is a good thing for the Welsh Assembly Government to have control over energy policy, not about what they are going to do.