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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Yes. Thank you very much for that, Rhys. I have to say, I share your experience: I too have been caught out exactly like that when I was still practising as a lawyer, and I also very much remember the butterflies in your tummy as you put forward a novel…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Adam. You make a whole series of really interesting points there. In terms of digital access, we're talking here about the changes to legislation.gov.uk, and, Dirprwy Lywydd, that does give me an opportunity to put on record how much we value that…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Mark. Thank you very much. I think that we agree that this is very much wanted and needed, and I’m glad that you had a look at the Law Society’s reaction to it. I wasn’t quite clear whether you had spoken to them. I have spoken to them, and I am sure…
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Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: The Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The Bill, though technical in nature, is intended to form an important part of the infrastructure that underpins Welsh law. Some provisions fill gaps and regularise the position of Welsh legislation, such that it is given a similar…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Yes, I don't at all disagree with the complexity of this, and it is interesting, when you start to look at particular bits of it, quite how complicated it is, I must say. It's part of the reason that we call for the devolution of justice, of course. We…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I have not yet had discussions about this issue with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care or the Ministry of Justice since taking up my post, since it has only been a couple of weeks, but I absolutely do recognise that child contact centres play…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
So, I haven't been in post long enough to have had that conversation, but part of the new remit of my post, wider than the Counsel General role, on the delivery side of my new responsibilities, is responsibility for ensuring that the overall legislative…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much, Delyth, and I will do that with the greatest of pleasure. The disused mine and quarry tips Bill will be introduced before the end of this calendar year.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much, Jenny. Obviously, all of us want to express our sympathy to any parent that experiences any of the various perinatal or stillbirths in that circumstance. I have to say, a very dear friend of mine has had this experience only this week…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you, Jenny Rathbone, for that question. Any decision to extend the remit of inquests to include perinatal deaths rests with the UK Government as coronial inquests are a reserved matter. All perinatal deaths in Wales are reported to the NHS Wales…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much for that, Jane. I just want to correct a couple of things there. We haven’t made a decision to end it. We ran a pilot, which ended. There’s a little bit of a difference there. We are very much looking at the evaluation of that pilot. The…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for that. As I understand it—. I know you've been involved in this all the way through, and I'm grateful for your involvement, and, indeed, your obvious passion for it. You’ll, I’m sure, recall that the Commission on Justice in Wales included a…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much for the question. I have not yet had any of those discussions, but I do intend to do so. Following an independent evaluation of the pilot, we are working with partners to progress next steps based on the recommendations made, and I'm very…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I just want to say, Heledd, I wasn't trying to denigrate in any way the number of people waiting on waiting lists for a service by describing the difference between a common parlance agreement and a contract. So, I just wanted to say that I wasn't trying to…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
There has been—my colleague has just reminded me—a written statement on the arrangements between NHS England and NHS Wales today. But I think though, Heledd, what we've got there is the difference between a legal agreement and a common parlance agreement. So…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you. I don’t think there are any constitutional implications of the announcement as made. What we were talking about at the conference was greater collaboration, if you like, between health services, in particular for people along the border, which has…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
As I say, I’ve only been in the role a matter of weeks, as you know, Mark Isherwood, so I will be having conversations with the Law Society, and with the legal profession more widely across Wales, to discuss a number of issues, including legal services…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for the question. Again, I admire the attempt to make that a matter for me, but it very clearly isn’t a matter for me, it’s very clearly a matter for the Cabinet Secretary. My understanding is that both training and advice has been given, both to…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I admire the Member's attempt to make that a legal issue for Wales, where it quite clearly is a legal issue for the UK Government. We will of course be watching with close interest what happens in that legal case, and should those pensioners be successful, no…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you very much for that. I'll tell you why I'm grateful for it—and you've made this mistake before. I would be more than happy to come with a list of Welsh Government achievements, which I'm happy to read out, Llywydd. The last occasion on which I…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for the question. It remains the responsibility of the relevant portfolio Cabinet Secretary to lead delivery of the Government’s priorities. My role will be to provide additional capacity to support my Cabinet colleagues, by bringing people together…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch, Delyth. We certainly welcome the Law Society having stimulated an important discussion with so many of its members. It's also very clear how much thinking and work has gone into the recent report, 'From Caernarfon to Caerdydd: Reimagining Justice in…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
While the operation of the justice system is largely reserved to the UK Government, we will, of course, be having discussions with them on the devolution of youth justice and probation. There has been no discussion with UK law officers on this specific…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Thank you for the question, Delyth.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Welsh Government priorities
Well, I haven't seen the whole of the budget yet, so I'm not in a position to say. I do take the point you make, of course—we'd all like to see some changes, but you have to see the whole thing, the whole picture, and I'm just reporting to you what it feels…
