4. 4. Motion under Standing Order 26.91 Seeking the Assembly's Agreement to Introduce a Member Bill on Protection of Historic Place Names

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:08 pm on 15 March 2017.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 3:08, 15 March 2017

Norse. I will be supporting your Bill at this stage and the general principles, but I have to say I do have some sympathy for the Cabinet Secretary, because law does have to be very clear. In my constituency, the village of Trellech has 13 different local variants in pronunciations and spellings, which causes massive confusion on road signs, as you can imagine. So, you have to be very careful when you do develop this that you don’t protect one variant of a place name at the expense of others. So, I’m looking forward to seeing how you actually achieve that.