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Government of Wales Bill

My Lords, I should have made this point earlier. The practical effect of the measure is not so much to curb the mother Parliament—it does not need curbing, because it would not be abused in that way—as to remove all doubt, as far as the Scottish Parliament is concerned, about whether it would be entirely proper for this House and the House of Commons to intervene. Once you have cleared the air by making a formal request under that convention, all doubt is removed. That is the real value of it.