The Commission on Justice in Wales Report

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:28 pm on 26 May 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:28, 26 May 2021

(Translated)

Thank you very much to Rhys ab Owen for that first question since he was elected. I'd like to acknowledge as well his specific expertise in this area, following the work that he did to help to put together the Thomas commission report as part of the secretariat. The stance of the Welsh Government is clear. We believe that justice should be devolved. It's not, for us, a matter now of whether that should happen, but how and when it should happen. 

With regard to scrutiny, I've asked the Counsel General to lead on this work. He will chair a sub-committee on the Thomas report, and there will be opportunities for Members to ask him questions about the timetable, about the work that we do within Wales with regard to the recommendations in the report that are in our hands, but also to ask questions about the work that we're going to do to try to draw the UK Government into the conversation on the report—a report that made the case for the devolution of justice so clearly.