Resolving Disputes between the Governments of the UK

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 12 February 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:07, 12 February 2019

And in the report that was published only last week, Llywydd, into the matter that was a subject of controversy on the floor of this Assembly, the UK Government, in its second three-monthly report, confirmed what I've just said, that not a single power has left this Assembly. Not a single use has been made of the mechanism that is in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 to deal with powers returning and there is no intention on the part of the UK Government to use that mechanism, because we are able—we have demonstrated an ability to resolve matters that lie between the component parts of the United Kingdom on the basis of agreement, as the Welsh Government said we would be able to from the very beginning.