English Votes for English Laws and North Wales

I appreciate that intervention from a fellow islander. I was in Jersey yesterday, watching the Is...

Is the hon. Gentleman acknowledging that the devolution settlement established in 1999—the creatu...

The call for devolution in the ’70s was so strong that there had to be a reaction to it from the ...

Yes, but did not the people of the north-east reject devolution to the English regions when it wa...

Obviously, that happened. If it had been done at the same time as the London Mayor, and perhaps a...

This is an important subject. Does my hon. Friend agree that there are many types of devolution? ...

I am grateful for that intervention. I will develop my argument a little bit further, but my poin...

Of course, the reality is that the decisions of the Assembly have led to power being centralised ...

The hon. Lady was a North Wales Member of the Assembly. My criticism is not just about the instit...

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being very kind in giving way. While I agre...

I am trying to make a number of points, but I am being intervened on every couple of minutes; I a...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point about North Wales, but what he says is equally true o...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This debate is about North Wales, but there are important iss...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will give way one more time, because I want to hear the English dimension on this issue. I know...

I speak as the person who was the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland for the shortest ever ti...

I understand why the hon. Gentleman makes that point, but I am talking about specialisms, not gen...

The hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr Gray) makes a valid point about a frustration he faces, b...

Other Members, if they catch your eye, Mr Crausby, will be able to give examples of using service...

rose—

Order. I intend to call the first of the three Front-Bench speakers at 10.30 am, which gives us a...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby.

Four minutes is not a long t...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will take only one intervention, because of the time.

What is an English-only law?

That is a key point. We have to have some confidence in the ability of this House and Parliament ...

Give us an example.

In my view, it is clear that many Bills will be categorised as English and Welsh. In many cases, ...

I speak today as an English MP elected for the first time only a few weeks ago. I have already di...

It is a huge pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby. I commend the hon. Member for...

I will be brief, as I have already spoken at some length. As Secretary of State for Wales, the ri...

I certainly believed in more devolution of taxing powers and was a firm advocate of that. The hon...

I appreciate the opportunity to speak in this Westminster Hall debate on English votes for Englis...

The problem with going through the courts is the endless delays. We saw that in Wales with the Su...

The point is that the core process is there. We need a process of legal challenge. We need to all...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not, as I have only a short time remaining.

It would also be improper and unpreceden...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) on securing this debate. I represent a ...

My hon. Friend makes a valid point about constitutional matters being a sleeping pill for most of...

My hon. Friend is quite right: we must address those issues. I will come on to that point in a mi...

And the staff.

And many of the staff live in Wales, of course. The services at those hospitals exist because of ...

I entered the Chamber this morning equal to every other Member attending the debate. I have been ...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I only have a short time and I want to ask the key question: who decides what is a Welsh issue? U...

We don’t know.

Will I be able to undertake—[Interruption.] The answer to the question, as my hon. Friend said, i...

Thank you, Mr Crausby, for calling me to speak. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Al...

May I ask what the difference is between the system we are proposing and one that includes a long...

The short answer is that I do not know, but the last time there was a constitutional convention, ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Crausby. I thank my hon. Friend the Member ...

The hon. Gentleman speaks of short-termism. Does he not agree that the devolution settlement was ...

I do not. The right hon. Gentleman is always blaming someone else. He and his party have been in ...

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Order. Two Members are indicating that they still wish to speak, and there is not much time left,...

I will be brief, Mr Crausby. The definition of an English-only law is crucial to this debate. The...

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I do not have time to give way, as the hon. Gentleman well knows.

Not only has the Secretar...

I ask for a very short contribution from Paul Flynn.

10.30 am

Devolution as given by the English nationalist party is a grudged gift. The party has never been ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Mr Crausby. I congratulate the ho...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am sorry, but I cannot give way, because I have to leave time for the Front Benchers.

Ins...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I do not have time to take interventions.

It is important that we have a proper debate and ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Can he not hear? Is he incapable of hearing, Mr Crausby? [Interruption.]

Order. The hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) is clearly not giving way.