Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 6 December 2022.

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Photo of Adam Price Adam Price Plaid Cymru 2:05, 6 December 2022

Can I turn to—[Interruption.] Yes, I know. Can I turn to constitutional matters? The Labour Party 2017 manifesto included a commitment to devolving policing to Wales. The Silk commission, set up by a Conservative-led administration, recommended it in 2014. Your own Government's Thomas commission recommended the devolution of policing and justice as a whole, and the Labour Party manifesto in 2017 said the Labour Government would work with you in using that report to sort out a failing justice system in Wales. The Brown commission recommendation to devolve just youth justice and probation takes us back 10 years in the devolution debate in Wales. But forget the politics, how about the real-world consequences? The Wales Governance Centre has just said that criminal justice outcomes in Wales are among the worst in Europe. What possible moral justification is there for leaving those powers in Westminster a minute longer than we have to, when they're causing such misery in so many people's lives?