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Wales Bill

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Monday, 31 October 2016, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth.
Lords committee stage first day. Clauses 2 and 4 to 13 agreed to. Schedule 3 agreed to as amended. Part 2 of 2.

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Reference

776 cc513-536 

Session

2016-17

Department

Wales Office

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Wales Bill 2016-17. Brought from the Commons.
Tuesday, 13 September 2016
Bills
House of Lords
Wales Bill
Monday, 31 October 2016
Parliamentary proceedings
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Proceeding contributions

Lord Wigley | 776 c513 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Wigley

6: Clause 2, page 2, line 12, leave out “normally”

Lord Wigley | 776 c514 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the amendment stands in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Elis-Thomas. As your L...


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Baroness Morgan of Ely | 776 cc514-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 7 and 8. These amendments are designed to clarify the circu...

Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 776 c516 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support both the noble Lord and my noble friend in their remarks. My noble friend Lad...

Lord Crickhowell | 776 c516 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I spoke at Second Reading and earlier today about the need for clarity in the Bill, and...

Lord Elis-Thomas | 776 cc516-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, and I am confident that the Mi...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 776 c517 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I was in this Chamber when this issue first arose in 1998 in the then Scotland Bill. I ...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 cc517-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who participated in the debate on this amendment. I turn first to t...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 776 c518 (Link to this contribution)

I understand the Minister is saying that it is not justiciable as to whether the word “normally” ...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 c518 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I do not think that I said that. I said that it signals that it is not justiciable. I a...

Lord Elystan-Morgan | 776 c518 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, does the Minister accept that there are two problems here? First, the bar is set at a v...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 c519 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for his comments and for clarifying what I was intendin...

Lord Wigley | 776 c519 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we are making progress. This is a good omen perhaps for a future amendment that is comi...

Baroness Fookes | 776 c519 (Link to this contribution)

The instruction of 26 October suggests that Clause 3 will be dealt with later.

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 c519 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

11: Schedule 3, page 89, line 38, at end insert—<...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 cc519-521 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will begin with government Amendments 19, 79 and 80, which relate to four cross-borde...

Baroness Randerson | 776 cc521-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 13, 14 and 17. I must declare an interest as a governor of ...

Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 776 c522 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I understand what the noble Baroness said about the charitable status of Welsh universi...

Baroness Morgan of Ely | 776 cc522-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Schedule 3 will provide some welcome clarity about competence in relation to Welsh publ...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 c523 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for participating in the debate on this group of amendments. In res...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 cc523-4 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

12: Schedule 3, page 90, line 30, at end insert—<...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 c524 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

15: Schedule 3, page 91, line 6, at end insert—

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 c524 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

18: Schedule 3, page 92, leave out lines 1 and 2 ...

Lord Hain | 776 c524 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Hain

20: After Clause 8, insert the following new Clause—

“Candid...

Lord Hain | 776 cc524-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in moving Amendment 20, I will speak also to Amendment 21. Both stand in my name and th...

Lord Crickhowell | 776 cc526-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I preface my remarks with a story I was told long ago by Sir John Rodgers, who lived in...

Lord Wigley | 776 cc527-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Crickhowell, has certainly given us cause to consider this issue f...

Lord Wigley | 776 c528 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, it was a very good by-election. I enjoyed it very much but then I was not standing. I should...

Lord Norton of Louth | 776 c529 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Crickhowell has raised practical objections to the amendment. I do...

Baroness Randerson | 776 cc529-530 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have great sympathy with the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. Al...

Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 776 c530 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I agreed to put my name to the amendment of my noble friend Lord Hain because it is bot...

Lord Crickhowell | 776 c530 (Link to this contribution)

I say straight away that I entirely agree with that. I am not arguing for someone who lives in Wi...

Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 776 cc530-1 (Link to this contribution)

I think that can be addressed if, in dealing with this amendment, the Government look at what hap...

Lord Norton of Louth | 776 c531 (Link to this contribution)

Surely, the argument, therefore, is that they should be given that chance—that one changes the sy...

Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 776 c531 (Link to this contribution)

If I had my way I would change the whole system—probably not to what the noble Lord, Lord Wigley,...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 776 c531 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this debate takes me back to 1981, when I applied to be a candidate in a constituency n...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 776 c532 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, there has been an unusual noise of breaking bottles outside your Lordships’ House this ...

Baroness Gale | 776 cc532-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank my noble friends Lord Hain and Lord Murphy and the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, for...

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth | 776 c534 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on these amendments. I thank th...

Lord Hain | 776 cc534-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. I will briefly respond to his points at the end of my re...

Lord Norton of Louth | 776 c536 (Link to this contribution)

My point was that one should change the system so that the electors actually have a choice. The n...

Lord Hain | 776 c536 (Link to this contribution)

I did discover all sorts of anomalies when I was Leader of the House of Commons about what was ac...

Subjects

Devolved matters
Devolution
National Assembly for Wales
Wales
Welsh Government

Legislation

Wales Bill 2016-17

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