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It is not just the Tory Senedd Members whom the noble Lords disparage with this amendment. They also pour cold water on the Tory councillors in those 21 authorities who abstained, some of whom privately support the Crown Estate being devolved to the Welsh Government. Did the two noble Lords who hurriedly penned this amendment less than 48 hours ago take the trouble to contact such councillors—did they? Their silence says everything—or did they assume that noble Peers know better than any such locally elected councillors in the 21 councils of Wales who backed this Bill’s objectives? These are councils that have been Conservative in the past: Monmouth council, Powys Council, Conwy Council, Denbighshire Council and Pembrokeshire Council. The message should be getting home: the noble Lords assume that noble Peers know better.