Greater London Authority Bill

To personalise this to myself for a moment, I have to say that as an existing Assembly member, I feel a little slighted. If the Government have confidence in the Assembly undertaking the process with regard to chairs and deputy chairs, then it should have confidence in the Assembly to undertake the process more widely, or deciding not to. Although I stumbled over it, I did say in introducing my amendments that I thought it might be more difficult, politically speaking, for the Secretary of State to take a decision to extend the category after there has been some sort of problem, rather than dealing with it as a matter of principle before there has been a difficulty.