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More than that, some of these questions were addressed in Committee in the other place, and an amendment was made to this legislation, specifically restricting the exercise of some of the powers in this legislation unless and until agreement had been given by the Welsh Government and Senedd Cymru. That amendment, which won by one vote in Committee and which secured the support of the leader of Plaid Cymru in the other place, was gutted subsequently by the promoter of the Bill, the Member for Batley and Spen. Again, we may well take the view that Kim Leadbeater was correct in seeking to overturn what the Committee had done, but what we cannot ignore is that two committees in the Senedd and the parliamentary Committee which was scrutinising this Bill in the other place all said that the legislation as currently put forward with respect to Wales was unsatisfactory.