3. 3. Statement: The Wales Bill

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:13 pm on 8 June 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 3:13, 8 June 2016

Can I thank the Member for his comments? The difficulty with the last Bill was that, basically, the Secretary of State wrote around to other Whitehall departments and said, ‘What do you think should be devolved?’ Now, they must have thought Christmas had come at that point, and we had the Bill that we had, that ignored even what had happened in 2011, with the resounding referendum result. That’s why we ended up with that Bill. This Bill has reflected on the two major constitutional issues—the consents issue and the issue of legislation and our ability to create legislation freely. That’s been done, and I welcome that. So, the structure of it is far more secure than the structure of the previous Bill, but there’s a lot of work to do on the detail.