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

In the end, I do not believe that the Welsh Assembly Government or the Assembly will want to pursue a Measure that becomes counter-productive, either to an emerging business sector or to a small charitable organisation—to whichever body may be in view. There is no argument about that. Indeed, I was encouraged that, in my discussions with the First Minister, and in those that he had with my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Wales before me—my right hon. Friend the Member for Torfaen also pioneered the approach that I have been able to build upon—there was no argument that anybody at the Cardiff end wanted to impose duties in a haphazard or burdensome way, and that is not envisaged anyway. I stress that we are transferring a power. It is for the Assembly to handle that power and it will want to consult widely as it does so.