Wales Bill

My Lords, I declare an interest as honorary president of the National Training Federation for Wal...

My Lords, we have had a very interesting debate. The noble Lord, Lord Wigley, and my noble friend...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in the debate on the amendment. I thank the n...

My understanding is that the way it is going to be delivered in England is through this so-called...

The noble Lord is right in the sense that the essence of devolution is that if the policy is devo...

My Lords, I will press the Minister further on this. Does he accept that, for the Welsh Governmen...

My Lords, this was precisely the point that I was dealing with. As I said, I will get a note roun...

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt. It is, of course, satisfactory that the Minister will write to...

My Lords, I am not quite sure what my noble friend wants me to say, other than that, as I have ju...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bourne, for his response, but he must be feeling ...

My Lords, I beg to move that Clause 17 does not stand part of the Bill and in so doing apologise ...

My Lords, before contributing to this Clause 17 stand part debate, I apologise to the Committee, ...

My Lords, I am grateful for this opportunity to speak on Clause 17, which the noble Lord, Lord Mu...

My Lords, I had not intended to intervene in this debate but I should like to make two points. Fi...

My Lords, I find myself agreeing with the noble Lord, Lord Morgan, on the subject of referendums ...

My Lords, the powers on income tax are one of the most important aspects of the Bill. As the Mini...

My Lords, in a tiny way this is a historic occasion: it is the first time in my recall that I div...

It might be helpful to recollect that when the referendum on devolution took place in Scotland, t...

I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord. At the time, I almost rejoiced in the full implement...

The noble Lord said that it was a great constitutional change and dismissed the argument advanced...

I agree with the noble Lord. Certainly we have not only a constitutional but an electoral arrange...

Perhaps I might correct the noble Lord on a point of slight detail. The Scottish National Party, ...

I accept the point entirely. I can respond to it only by saying that I await, without bating my b...

The noble Lord very kindly talked of our consistency on these matters; I also respect his consist...

I say to the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, who I respect greatly, that it would be—without oversimplif...

My Lords, I wonder whether I can assist the noble Lord, Lord Kinnock, in his final question by te...

My Lords, I will briefly emphasise a point strongly implied by my noble friend Lord Kinnock but p...

My Lords, I was 12 in 1979 when we had the first referendum on whether we wanted devolution to co...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. I do not think that she is speaking in favour...

I am not speaking in favour of the amendment because of the next amendment. We need an increase i...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in this debate. For the sake of clarity—I cor...

I asked the noble Lord for justification of the change in the law that would be implied by the en...

My Lords, I disagree with the noble Lord on this point. I remember the same argument being put fo...

Does the noble Lord recognise that to justify his contention about the movement of opinion in Wal...

No, it does not. Rather the reverse, it showed that opinion in Wales had changed much more than p...

On a point of detail, it was suggested that there was a Welsh Conservative manifesto commitment. ...

My Lords, I am most grateful for that clarification. I do not think I had read it either. It is a...

Obviously, I shall not oppose the clause standing part, but I shall make two points in response t...

The noble Lord seems to think that this is about additional income tax but we are talking about t...

I had not quite finished my remarks—I thought the noble Lord was intervening on me. The issue is ...

In Committee, I think I am entitled to speak as many times as I wish. I apologise to the noble Lo...

My Lords, I am very happy to supply the information that I gave previously at Second Reading, whe...

I will press the Minister for clarification. Of course, if 10p is transferred over there will be ...

That is absolutely right. The National Assembly for Wales doing something imaginative to raise in...

On the issue of taxation levied on the people of Wales, will the Minister spend a moment explaini...

My Lords, we are being taken in a direction completely off the particular provision in the Bill. ...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

24: After Clause 17, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, to me this is one of the key clauses in the whole Bill. I have made no secret of my lac...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 24 moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Ely, w...

My Lords, I am not sure that I know what the upper limit should be. However, I sympathise with th...

My Lords, undoubtedly £500 million is an anachronistic figure. As has been said several times thi...

My Lords, the figure of £500 million, set as the limit for borrowing by the Welsh Government, is ...

My Lords, if EU investment in south Wales suffers, as some of us fear it might, we could find our...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have participated in the debate on Amendment 24, and I than...

I thank the noble Lord for those undertakings. I was particularly pleased to hear that the amount...