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Legislative Programme and Budget Statement (Wales)

I welcome you, Mr Brady, to the most powerful Committee in the House of Commons. By comparison, the 1922 Committee, of which you are also a distinguished chair, is but a pale shadow. For the record, I do not recognise at all the description given by the Secretary of State on the dates and subjects before the Committee. I would also like to comment on the contortions, twists and particularly insulting procedures imposed on us without notice this morning. Wales Office officials, as the Secretary of State will be able to check, have my mobile phone number. They are used to getting phone calls or e-mails from me at 6 am, so the idea that they could make a last-minute call to my office and not get an answer because I was busy elsewhere is preposterous. Will she give an undertaking—and will you, Mr Brady ensure that she does—that in the future, if a Minister is coming to address the Committee and if there is to be a variation to the agenda, proper notice will be given to members of the Committee through the usual channels? That would show proper respect for the Committee.