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

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for that contribution and I understand what he says. The difficulty is that if we impose a proportionality and reasonableness test, small sub-postmasters will have to apply to some appeals committee for exclusion from the provisions of whatever measure may be brought through before they can open up their business. That would be farcical, and now is the time, with the drafting of the LCO, to take that concern into account, because I seriously believe—I am not being alarmist—that if the legislation is applied heavy-handedly, it could result in many small communities losing their sub-post offices.