Member

The noble Baroness’s intervention gives me an opportunity to turn to both of those committees. Both have expressed specific concern that some of the powers that the Government seek to exercise have not been justified, and on the evidence that has been provided by the Welsh Government themselves to the Senedd, the exercise of those powers has not been justified. The Welsh Government have said—entirely understandably, as Executives do—that they do not wish to share some of the legal advice that they have received with these committees, because, quite rightly, it is the right of the Executive to have legal advice offered in private and for it to remain confidential. But those committees are in a position where they say that for their purposes—for the purposes of due and appropriate deliberation—they have not been provided the information necessary to justify support for this legislation.