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Government of Wales Bill

My noble friend on the Front Bench made the fair point that it may not be for this Bill to prescribe how the Welsh Assembly is to make its legislation accessible. I accept that, but the problem remains. I shall give one example of it: the direction powers issued by the Welsh Assembly Government to housing associations in Wales. I understand that the Library of the Welsh Assembly has confirmed that no comprehensive list of directions issued to the housing associations between July 1999 and December 2005 is available. Is that a satisfactory state of affairs? Is that not a mischief that ought to be attend to and corrected, but not necessarily by this Bill? I am not sure whether it should be done by the legislature or the executive of the Welsh Assembly, but it should be corrected. I will be looking for an undertaking along those lines.