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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
I thank Huw Irranca for those comments, and I also congratulate you and welcome your appointment as Chair of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee—I apologise, the name changed slightly, didn't it, et cetera, but that is such a vital committee…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
Thank you for that question. I won't respond in respect of the issue with regard to Senedd Bills, because I think that is, appropriately, a matter for this Parliament to determine. But you do raise issues in respect of human rights. I would, of course, remind…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
I thank Mike Hedges for the comments he's raised, and, of course, he has raised on many occasions during the debates in the Senedd in the last term, but also even this year. Referring to the social partnership and procurement Bill, this is a long-standing…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
Can I thank the Member for those comments? They are comments I almost in entirety agree with. Just to say to her, in respect of the issues of electoral reform, as Counsel General, I have met with the Electoral Commission, I have met with the Electoral Reform…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
I'd like to thank the Member for those comments, and I am very much in agreement with the comments she made with regard to improving electoral registration. The crux of the problem, really, is that our electoral registration and legislation and regulations…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
I thank the Member for that very detailed contribution, and many of the comments I actually welcome. In the 10 or 11 years now that I've been a Senedd Member, I don't think I've attended a single legislative programme debate where the debate doesn't start off…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
Well, I thank the leader of the opposition for those comments. If I could deal with them as you've gone through them, I think, in a constructive way. In respect of the issue of backbench ballots, these are clearly an important part of the operation of this…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
Llywydd, with this new Government comes new duties and, under the Legislation (Wales) Act of 2019, we must prepare a programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law. I will lay the full programme in the autumn, but I'm pleased to announce that we will…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
The public health emergency remains and the regulations, which have such an unprecedented impact on our lives, will for now at least continue to make commensurate demands on the Government’s policy and legal capacity and the Senedd’s time. Despite the wholly…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: The Legislative Programme
Diolch, Llywydd. Today, I am pleased to make a statement on our legislative programme, an essential part of our ambitious and radical programme for government, to help create a stronger, greener and fairer Wales. Llywydd, often it is our proposals for primary…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Departure from the European Union
Yet, with a competent and caring UK Government, it could have been so, so different. Instead, we have been delivered a trade agreement of gargantuan incompetence, which now threatens our economic and political stability, the fragmentation of the UK, and the…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Departure from the European Union
Diolch, Llywydd. In the five years since the referendum, we've debated the outcome on numerous occasions. Each time, we have made it clear that we respect the outcome of that referendum. In fact, we respect it more than the Members opposite, because we also…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Departure from the European Union
Formally.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The Senedd's powers
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to participate in this debate today. It's our first opportunity since the Senedd elections to consider some of the serious constitutional challenges facing Wales and the rest of the UK, and I am…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The Senedd's powers
I move it formally.
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Motion under Standing Order 9.1 to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty of a person for appointment as Counsel General
The pandemic, Llywydd, has drawn into sharp focus the influence and impact that the laws made here, in this Senedd, have upon the people of Wales's every day lives. The full impact of the devolution settlement has been recognised both here in Wales and across…
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Motion under Standing Order 9.1 to agree to the First Minister's recommendation to Her Majesty of a person for appointment as Counsel General
Thank you, Llywydd, and thank you to the First Minister for the nomination. I wish to pay tribute to Jeremy Miles who was in this role before me. Thank you to Jeremy Miles for his hard work in developing and promoting a legal jurisdiction for Wales and for…
