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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Welsh Affairs Committee
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Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13: 9780215070678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Government response to HC 962, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215069313)
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2014-03-03
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780215069313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The draft Wales Bill was published following the recommendations of the Silk Commission in November 2012. It sets out to devolve tax and borrowing powers to the Welsh Government and National Assembly for Wales, make changes to the electoral arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales, and clarify and update the devolution settlement. The Government hopes that the provisions in the draft Wales Bill will enable devolved governance in Wales to become more accountable. The cross-party Committee believes partial devolution of income tax to the Welsh Government should be put to the people of Wales in a referendum. The cross-party Committee also has sympathy with the argument that the issue of "fair funding" must be resolved before any income tax powers are devolved so that Wales is not unfairly disadvantaged. The issue of fair funding - how the size of the block grant from the UK Government is determined, currently by the Barnett formula which has long been criticised as providing an unfairly low allocation to Wales - needs to be examined and should not wait until after the 2015 General Election. The National Assembly for Wales should have power to decide its own Assembly term length, rather than this being decided at Westminster. The Committee recommends the clause in the draft Bill which permanently extends the length of the Assembly from four to five years should be scrapped and replaced with provisions that give the National Assembly the powers to determine the length of its own electoral term.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Welsh Affairs Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 4
ISBN-13: 0215091299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Due to the compressed nature of pre-legislative scrutiny, the Committee was not able to cover all provisions in the draft Bill in detail. Evidence covered a number of areas, but the three main aspects of the draft Bill that were raised, and on which this Report focuses, are: the transition to a reserved powers model; the reservation of criminal and private law and the necessity tests; and the consenting arrangements. The majority of witnesses have suggested improvements to the draft Bill. Some of these, such as replacing the "necessity" test with a test that is clearer and has a lower threshold, and that in relation to Ministerial consent, that the UK Government transfers to the Welsh Ministers all Ministerial functions in areas of devolved legislative competence, the Committee have been able to agree upon. Some of the evidence received raised other important and relevant issues; in particular many witnesses proposed a form of distinct legal jurisdiction. This issue may not have been apparent to all potential witnesses at the outset of the inquiry, so the Committee cannot be confident they received all relevant evidence on this important subject. They now ask the Secretary of State to reflect on the recommendations. There is a growing body of Welsh law that differs from that which applies in England, but the implications of this requires careful scrutiny. The Committee shares the view of the Silk Commission, that the UK and Welsh governments will need to continue to review the issue of a separate or distinct Welsh jurisdiction
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780215071088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bill makes changes to the electoral arrangements for the National Assembly for Wales, gives effect to many of the recommendations set out in the first report of the Commission on Devolution in Wales (the Silk Commission) and makes a number of technical changes to the Government of Wales Act 2006 and other legislation in order to update the operation of the devolution settlement in Wales. The Bill was published in draft in 2013 (Cm. 8733, ISBN 9780101877329) and has been the subject of pre-legislative scrutiny by the Welsh Affairs Select Committee (4th report session 2013-14, HC 962, ISBN 9780215069313)
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 2014-03-20
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780215069078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bill makes changes to the electoral arrangements for the National Assembly for Wales, gives effect to many of the recommendations set out in the first report of the Commission on Devolution in Wales (the Silk Commission) and makes a number of technical changes to the Government of Wales Act 2006 and other legislation in order to update the operation of the devolution settlement in Wales. The Bill was published in draft in 2013 (Cm. 8733, ISBN 9780101877329) and has been the subject of pre-legislative scrutiny by the Welsh Affairs Select Committee (4th report session 2013-14, HC 962, ISBN 9780215069313)
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Welsh Affairs Committee
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 9781785844577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Welsh Affairs Committee
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780215011701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Support is expressed for the draft Bill's main aim which is to create a new Welsh Audit Office under the Auditor General for Wales, covering local government and NHS bodies as well as the National Assembly for Wales and its sponsored bodies. The Committee makes a number of recommendations to improve transparency and accountability including: consideration of a wide statutory duty to be placed on the Auditor General for Wales to ensure sufficient regard to the view of all relevant interests concerning the local government value for money audit; and deletion of the clause which unduly restricts disclosure of information by local government auditors. It also highlights the need for the Auditor General to promote cross-border studies, which should be published as joint reports. Clarification is sought on a range of issues, such as NHS performance audit arrangements.
