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Legislative Programme and Budget Statement (Wales)

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. It is not for me to square the ramblings of the right hon. Gentleman. He does not seem to have got his ducks in a row. Leaving the referendum in that state was, I think, one of those areas that was intended to be a political trap. There can be no political trap, because I am absolutely determined that we will fulfil what the Welsh Assembly Government have asked for. They asked, reasonably, for a referendum on whether they should have further powers and whether we should effectively get rid of the LCO process. I believe that it is up to the people of Wales to decide that. We have now got a question, which has gone to the Electoral Commission. That question was agreed in the project board, with the exception of a few words at the end that the First Minister did not agree with. In my letter to the Electoral Commission, I pointed out that there was a difference of opinion on a small piece of the wording. The Electoral Commission also indicated that it preferred to have a longer document to test over the two weeks and I was delighted to do that.