To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will assess the merits of making an annual statement on the implications of the Government’s legislative programme for matters that fall within the enhanced legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales. [109228]

Yes. The Government of Wales Act 2006 will enhance the legislative competence of the National Assembly, giving the new Assembly the power to pass its own laws for the first time from May next year. I intend in future therefore to make an annual statement making clear the implications of the Government’s legislative programme for matters that fall within that legislative competence.