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National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Welsh Language)

The hon. Gentleman has made a statement about the future work of the Select Committee. I appreciate that he is going to some lengths, with the assistance of other Select Committee members, to ensure that its work is not seen as a barrier or delaying tactic. Where have such suggestions come from? It is rather alarming that the work of a Select Committee looking at something in a proper and orderly fashion should result in, obviously, messages being passed to the Chairman suggesting that the Select Committee was delaying. Will he please ensure that that is not the case and tell the Grand Committee where those suggestions have come from? It cannot be right. As a supplementary: the two documents from the Secretary of State and the Assembly have no legal status as far as I know. They are a set of good intentions. If neither we nor the Select Committee have seen the order—