Thread by @GeorgePeretzQC

This rejected clause is the provision that makes subsidy control a reserved matter - giving Westminster power to legislate to impose a subsidy control regime on the devolved parliaments without breaching the Sewel convention.

https://twitter.com/labourlordsuk/status/1331668479053852672

Note, though, that clause itself is a breach of the Sewel convention, since it takes power from the devolved parliaments without their consent. Paradox number 1.

Paradox number 2 is that the current government’s current declared plan for a subsidy control regime is ... not to have a plan. We might do something some time if we feel like it.

That means that clause 44 is a bit like laying the foundations for a building when you can’t say what type of building you want, or any idea when or even if you will build it.