Wales Bill

My Lords, my amendments in this group are all focused on attempting to ensure that the legislativ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Ely and to the noble Lord, Lor...

Amendment 82 was discussed in the other place and the Minister gave the same assurance to my coll...

I do not think I follow the noble Lord’s point. It is obviously a hallmark of good legislation th...

Perhaps we could discuss it further.

I shall be very happy to discuss it further with the noble Lord.

The inclusion of exception...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Elis-Thomas, in introducing his Amendments 77 and 78, did not expa...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comprehensive answer. There is a lot to digest.

It g...

Moved by

Lord Wigley

42: Clause 3, page 2, line 40, at end insert—

“(c) relates...

My Lords, Amendment 42 relates to the Welsh community in Patagonia, which is located entirely wit...

My Lords, a good many years ago I and my wife visited the Welsh settlement in Patagonia. We were ...

My Lords, while I share the aspirations of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, I would like to ask him a...

Indeed. Education in Chubut is a wholly devolved matter in Argentina. The state legislature of Ch...

My Lords, what the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, said is totally correct. Y Wladfa, the Welsh communit...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, for introducing the amendment and other noble Lord...

My Lords, I thank everyone who contributed to this short debate and am grateful for the positive ...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

42A: Clause 3, page 3, line 3, leave out “paragra...

Moved by

Lord Elis-Thomas

43: Clause 3, page 3, leave out lines 5 and 6

I have always believed that constitutional legislation in any state should be intelligible, or as...

My Lords, I have huge sympathy with what the noble Lord, Lord Elis-Thomas, just said. Why have th...

My Lords, I have every sympathy for what has been said about consolidation. My difficulty is more...

My Lords, I have added my name to the second of these amendments, but I should have added it to b...

My Lords, by now, after the contributions that have been made, the Minister will be quite clear t...

My Lords, I am a lawyer, but I have no idea what Clause 3(5) means. I look forward to the Ministe...

Randerson.

My noble friend Lady Randerson. I was getting my names mixed up for a moment. She said the other ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their participation in this part of the Bill. Through these ame...

I apologise to my noble friend Lady Randerson. What she said on the first day in Committee, which...

My Lords, there is a commercial opportunity there. I commend the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, ...

I am sorry to intervene again, but I thought I was being pretty stupid at a late hour at night wh...

My Lords, I believe it means—and I will write to noble Lords if I am incorrect in this, as I may ...

I am, of course, disappointed by the Minister’s response, but I should be disappointed at least o...

Moved by

Lord Elystan-Morgan

45: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, these two amendments, Amendment 45 and Amendment 46, are intended to stimulate thought—...

My Lords, I support my friend, the noble Lord, Elystan-Morgan, on Amendment 45, which he moved so...

My Lords, I yield to no one in my admiration for my noble friend Lord Elystan-Morgan, but althoug...

It is really heart-warming to hear my noble friend Lord Elystan-Morgan—and I call him that—go bac...

Will the noble Lord accept my word for it that I am not in any way advocating any jurisdiction fo...

My Lords, I will not embark on a personal excursion into Welsh history. However, apropos the exce...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on this part of the Bill. I par...

My Lords, on the question of dominion status, I was tempted to make the mischievous point that fo...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

47A: Schedule 1, page 46, line 45, leave out from...

My Lords, turning to the next group of amendments, I am pleased to speak, first, to government Am...

On this very point, at Second Reading I asked the Minister to explain why it appeared that powers...

My Lords, I shall deal with that briefly before I resume. I recall my noble friend raising this a...

I think the noble Lord has decoupled that amendment. We will deal with heating and cooling at a d...

I apologise. I am grateful for the intervention. In that case, I have dealt with our amendments. ...

My Lords, I have great personal respect for the Minister, as he well knows, but it is absolutely ...

I apologise to the noble Lord. Had he got up at an earlier stage I would have happily given way t...

I accept entirely the Minister’s point that they have been grouped in this way, but when I realis...

My Lords, I greatly regret that we are discussing one of the key features of the Bill at this ver...

My Lords, I know that the hour is late. I want to endorse the sentiment expressed so clearly just...

My Lords, it is simply demeaning for Wales that public order and policing should not be devolved....

My Lords, I know it is very late, but this a critical group of amendments. This is the first time...

My Lords, once again I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, in particular. I was a victim of...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

47B: Schedule 1, page 48, leave out lines 21 to 2...