Welsh Assembly Legislation (Attorney-General)

I remember it vividly. It was a painful experience but one that resulted in promotion to Cabinet ...

My hon. Friend might want to recollect that before that we had the procedure for legislative comp...

Yes, it was a difficult period when we had the LCOs, which were a new legislative monstrosity tha...

My hon. Friend is making a strong case about the first law, which was very historic, as he mentio...

I am glad that my hon. Friend has intervened, because I can remind him of the costs that the Gove...

That would cover a lot of the bedroom tax.

Absolutely. We could have saved lots of the bedroom tax if this had not been done. The legal cost...

While following the very excited way in which the hon. Gentleman is putting his case, I cannot le...

I think that a number of them agreed and the judgment was won.

I am not sure that it is entirely fair for my hon. Friend to put all the blame on officials in th...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for his expert view on this.

Another Bill was th...

Before my hon. Friend continues on to another Bill, may I suggest that there might be an interpre...

Absolutely. This is part of the long history of the neglect of Wales and the undervaluing of Wels...

Does my hon. Friend share my shock at the fact that the Welsh Government Minister, Alun Davies, h...

My hon. Friend gives a splendid example. This is the reverse of devolution, the very opposite of ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Should it not be the case—it certainly was ...

That is absolutely right. Leaving decisions to the courts and depending on expensive silks is no ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that that Bill is important because it will recover money for the healt...

That is absolutely right. The main part of the Bill is to get money back for the health service f...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. We are still awaiting the latest informati...

My hon. Friend expresses very well the position we are in now. The Silk commission, after an exha...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn) on his excellent speech in...

Unexpectedly, I rise to support my hon. Friend the Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn) on this i...

My right hon. Friend is making a strong case. Does he agree that at play here was something much ...

There are two ways of looking at it. There are party political differences because of the differe...

When I served under my right hon. Friend as Under-Secretary of State for Wales, a signature of hi...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks, and there is machinery within the Government sys...

I want to return to the Agricultural Wages Board—a good example —and ask the Solicitor-General wh...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn) not only on introducing th...

I am surprised to hear the hon. Gentleman suggest that LCOs are better than the current system, w...

I could not agree with the hon. and learned Gentleman more. Perhaps I should clarify what I was s...

Does my hon. Friend accept that there is also an opportunity cost here? What is the Secretary of ...

I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. There is a clear case for a cost-benefit analysis of the ta...

I start by thanking the hon. Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn) for initiating the debate. The ...