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Government of Wales Bill

I am most grateful to the Minister for his response, which partly reassures me because I think that the Minister is genuinely worried about the situation. It partly alarms me because of the latter part of his intervention. In the last resort, it is the courts that interpret the will of Parliament. If the courts say that there is a gap and the Minister in Wales does not have the vires to issue the compulsory purchase order, for that particular dispute, that ought to be that. I can quite see that the Government may then take a political view that the compulsory purchase order ought to have covered that situation, in which case it would make laws for the future dealing with that matter. But the notion that it could, by legislation, change the decision of a court made on existing rights I find profoundly disturbing. In the period of reflection that the noble Lord will undoubtedly have to endure between the Committee and Report stages of this Bill, I hope that he will be good enough to consider this matter further. I do not say ““again”” because I like to think that his thoughts are evolving as he speaks. Meanwhile, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.