Parliamentary search - Government of Wales Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

680 c261-328

Session

2005-06

Department

Wales Office

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Government of Wales Bill. Brought from Commons. Explanatory notes HL Bill 81-EN also published.
Wednesday, 1 March 2006
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Proceeding contributions

Lord Evans of Temple Guiting | 680 c261-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. It is not quite eight years since...

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 680 c262 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that my noble friend the Minister will anticipate my question. If this is good e...

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Lord Evans of Temple Guiting | 680 c262-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that question will be debated at enormous length as the Bill goes through the House. To ra...

Lord Steel of Aikwood | 680 c263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for giving way. I noticed that the Government in the ot...

Lord Evans of Temple Guiting | 680 c263-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I reassure the noble Lord that I have no sleights of hand. I have not read the quotations ...

Lord Rowlands | 680 c299-302 (Link to this contribution) Given the time, I shall confine my observations to Parts 3 and 4 of the Bill. First, it was a privil...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 680 c302-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I believe in subsidiarity—the principle that power and accountability should be as close a...

Lord Prys-Davies | 680 c294-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Richard for the report produced two years ago by his...

Lord Baker of Dorking | 680 c296-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think it entirely reasonable and appropriate that someone like me, who has spent his lif...

Lord Elystan-Morgan | 680 c318 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if I gave the impression that I expected Part 3 to take place in the blink of an eyelid, I...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 680 c317-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my near neighbour, the noble Lord, Lord Jones, and I, suffered in 1979 from the belief in ...

Lord Jones | 680 c315-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Gale. It was my happy duty to work for...

Baroness Gale | 680 c312-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was involved for many years in developing the Labour Party’s policy on devolution as gen...

Lord Anderson of Swansea | 680 c309-12 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am glad to have an opportunity to contribute to the debate, to follow my good friend the...

Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach | 680 c305-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in this debate. I well remember the Second Reading eig...

Lord Henley | 680 c320-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are now coming to the end of a fairly long debate, but I take the noble Lord, Lord Evan...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 680 c324-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a fascinating debate. Let me first reply to the noble Lord, Lord Henley. He wi...

Lord Baker of Dorking | 680 c325 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the shape of things to come.

Lord Davies of Oldham | 680 c325-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hear the noble Lord, Lord Baker, and I have seen his valiant attempts with his modest—I ...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 680 c318-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that I have indicated to your Lordships how many years we have been treading the s...

Lord Crickhowell | 680 c327 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the process of devolution is subject to veto by the Secretary of State in almost every par...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 680 c327 (Link to this contribution) Well, my Lords, that would have to be examined against the background. The noble Lord will recognise...

Lord Henley | 680 c327 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does not the noble Lord accept that if you follow d’Hondt, on, say, a committee of seven, ...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 680 c327 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of all the Bills on which the Government should be attacked for having centralist control,...

Lord Crickhowell | 680 c327 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what on earth are the Government doing trying to dictate this matter to the Assembly? Does...

Lord Grocott | 680 c267 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have it in command from Her Majesty the Queen to acquaint the House that Her Majesty, ha...

Lord Roberts of Conwy | 680 c267-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his polished presentation of a very unpolished Bill. On the poem ...

Lord Roberts of Conwy | 680 c272 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for reminding me of what our noble friend Lord Forsyth sa...

Lord Roberts of Conwy | 680 c272 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord tempts me to try to reply to him, but the long and short of it is that the ...

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 680 c271-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, detected that whiff of inconsistency. However, as the noble Lord knows, I was not ...

Lord Elystan-Morgan | 680 c277-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is appropriate that I should open my remarks with an apology. I have been on leave of a...

Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 680 c272-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before speaking on this subject I should like, from a Welsh angle, to pay my respects to L...

Lord Roberts of Conwy | 680 c272 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, they are not actually proposing to do that but they are proposing to change the system tha...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 680 c272 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if it had really been the Government’s purpose to spite the minority parties, they would n...

Lord Richard | 680 c279-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having listened to the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan, speaking after 19 years away, perh...

Lord Roberts of Conwy | 680 c281 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, let me make my position reasonably clear. I am in favour of greater legislative competence...

Lord Richard | 680 c281-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course I accept that there would have to be a referendum before primary legislative pow...

Lord Richard | 680 c282-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suppose that it would be open to a court to take that view if the matter was to litigate...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 680 c282 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord has rightly said that the reasons for the Secretary of State to reject an o...

Lord Crickhowell | 680 c283-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by saying what a pleasure it was to hear the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan, afte...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 680 c290-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like others who have already spoken, there is much in the Bill that I welcome, particularl...

Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 680 c287-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in this debate on the future government of Wales. It is als...

Lord Davies of Coity | 680 c292-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not feel that there is any major difficulty with the main thrust of the Bill. None th...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 680 c327-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Secretary of State has powers with regard to the process of devolution, and so he shou...

Lord Crickhowell | 680 c272 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for giving way. Was the answer to the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, no...

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