James Evans has welcomed attempts being made to stamp out sex-based harassment in public.

The Brecon and Radnorshire MS has welcomed a “legislative consent memorandum” introduced by the Welsh Government.

He said at the Senedd that Welsh Conservatives support the “LCM” because there is a need to do as much possible to protect people from harassment.

Mr Evans said: “I and my group support any measures to strengthen the law in this area to ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.

“There is no place in society for any violence against women or anybody in our place of work, or in public, or anywhere in this country.”

But Mr Evans was disappointed that the action proposed by the Government hadn’t been presented in the form of a Bill.

He said: “We think it’s very important that laws are made in the Senedd for Welsh people, and this is a devolved area.

“We think on these benches that, if we had brought this forward as a Welsh Government Bill, it would have given more opportunity for organisations to feed into this and for Senedd Members to scrutinise this properly.

“We do support this in principle, but I’d like to know what the Welsh Government is going to do to bring forward Welsh legislation in this area.

“There is wide-ranging support for a Bill like this, developed in the Senedd, to eradicate sex-based harassment in Wales.

“I think that we should have a Bill on this statute book made here in the Senedd.”