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Cluster Munitions (Prohibitions) Bill [Lords]

Again, I thank the hon. Gentleman for those points. All I ask of the Minister—obviously he cannot accede to the advice of the hon. Member for Stone—is that he seek to offer us some assurance that the Government are sensitive to the concerns and considerations being voiced here and to reassure us by indicating that any modifications to devolved legislation would use the facility of a legislative consent motion, to ensure that they are not imposed without consent, particularly on a point of potential controversy. Will he also indicate that there will be clear concordats and protocols in relation to the interests of devolved Assemblies and their relevant Governments and Executives in terms of anything that the Secretary of State would propose to do under the powers given to him in the clause? The clause characterises a wide and sweeping power that has no regard to anyone else's thoughts, interests or prerogatives other than what the Secretary of State considers necessary or desirable.