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Legislative Programme and Budget Statement (Wales)

On the right hon. Lady’s point about co-operation, may I congratulate her on the Wales Office’s wise decision to approve the unamended housing legislative competence order? It is an excellent decision that replicates one taken by the Welsh Affairs Committee. Will she, however, correct a serious error? Perhaps it is terminological inexactitude, but her hon. Friend the Under-Secretary said in a press statement this week: ““The previous Government prevaricated over this LCO for three years””. The fact of the matter is that we are talking about two separate LCOs and we have received nothing but praise from Jocelyn Davies, the Welsh Assembly Government’s Deputy Minister for Housing and Regeneration, for the support given by successive Secretaries of State for Wales and by the Welsh Affairs Committee. Will the right hon. Lady therefore correct the error in her hon. Friend’s press statement?