Further Powers for Wales

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:20 pm on 11 October 2022.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:20, 11 October 2022

(Translated)

Thank you very much to Rhys ab Owen for that supplementary question. I had an opportunity to meet with Keir Starmer in Liverpool in the Labour Party conference, and I had an opportunity to spend a day with Gordon Brown in Scotland in the week following the conference. That was an opportunity to discuss with Gordon Brown the report that he is putting together for Keir Starmer about constitutional affairs across the United Kingdom, but also about matters affecting Wales too, and I look forward to seeing the Gordon Brown report. That, in my view, will set out a number of important recommendations for us, not just here in Wales, but across the United Kingdom, to create a devolution system that can’t be rolled back by a Government in Westminster when people in Wales have voted twice in referenda to establish this body with the powers that we currently have. And, more than that, not just stable devolution here, but additional steps to strengthen devolution here in Wales, in Scotland and in Northern Ireland too.