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Oral answer to question provided on Monday, 25 March 2019 in the House of Lords, by Lord Young of Cookham (Conservative).

Answer

A top priority for the Government is the constitutional integrity of the UK, and that is secured by a good working relationship between all four Governments. I accept that the intergovernmental architecture underpinning that relationship needs buttressing, and that is why we are undertaking the review that I mentioned. As for meetings, as the noble and learned Lord will know, there is a plenary JMC, a European one, a EU negotiations one and a ministerial forum. They are meeting regularly. The ministerial forum last met in February. The JMC on EU negotiations also met in February. Perhaps I could write to him on the specific issue that he raised about the DPRRC.

This is an answer to the Oral question asked on Monday, 25 March 2019 by Lord Morris of Aberavon (Labour).

Question

My Lords, when did UK Ministers last meet Welsh Assembly Ministers, and when do the Government intend to reply to the severe criticism made by our Delegated Powers Committee last October of the Agriculture Bill now before Parliament, which sought to bypass the devolved legislatures—or are the Government blind to the fact that the devolved Administrations are now part of our constitution?

Type
Oral answer to question
Reference
796 c2141 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Deposited Paper DEP2019-0421
Thursday, 28 March 2019
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Agriculture Bill
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Written questions
House of Lords
Subjects
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