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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
—don't read the journalistic outcome of it. I will be very clear for you: of course we want policing devolved. We want policing devolved with its budgets wholly intact and in a coherent fashion. I was asked the question, 'Do we want it right this second?' So…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Read the whole speech—
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
And you're not listening to the answers I'm giving you, either. [Interruption.] It's very important not to carry on reading things out when somebody has already answered part of your question—
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Ask me one in my portfolio.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
You haven't; you've read the journalistic report.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Yes, and you haven't read the whole speech.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
So, always read to the end of the page.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I did not say that. I said in a much longer interview that what we would want very much was the funding to be devolved at the same time, and that devolution is a journey and not an event. So, if you're going to quote me, at least read the whole speech. Again…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Which is nothing to do with what you just asked me.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Well, I can, but I don't entirely understand what that's got to do with my portfolio at all, I'm afraid. So, I don't quite know where you're going with that.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Well, I think, Adam, you're rather overstating the remarks of the court and the effect on the overall judgment there, but I don't have the detail about my person, as I said, so I will write to you about that. Of course we take all of these things very…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I'm afraid I don't have the detail of the exact conversation. I'll have to write to the Member with the detail; I don't have it about my person. I don't recollect it just off the top of my head.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
This is a matter that's been discussed with the health Secretary, and not with me. I have a jurisdiction up until the point of the judgment, and then, once the judgment has happened, it would be passed over to the relevant Cabinet Secretary. I'm aware of the…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch, Peter. The local development plans, as you know, are a vital part of the planning system in Wales. And the Welsh Government remains completely committed to their role in the planning system. They're a key tool in enabling local planning authorities to…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Torfaen County Borough Council are progressing their replacement local development plan in line with the agreed delivery agreement timetable. If the situation changes in the future, the Welsh Government will give due consideration to all appropriate options…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch, Rhys. We have a slight difference of opinion there, I am afraid. The judgment in Norton confirms that a failure to carry out an updated housing assessment under the Housing Act 1996 does not automatically render a decision on the suitability of…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Diolch, Rhys ab Owen. The Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill introduces sufficient safeguards to ensure that prevention, support and accommodation plans are properly assessed, kept under review and given due consideration in decisions on…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Great. So, hopefully, Chair, that means we can move to the final stage in the Senedd very shortly, and I think that will be a real, major accomplishment for the Senedd, to have consolidated such a large area of law. Diolch.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
The only other thing I wanted to say was I wanted to say 'thank you very much' to the committee members for the detailed consideration. I particularly wanted to thank the clerking team for the constructive way that they've engaged with the Government's…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
No, I don't think, Chair, that there will be any further amendments, but we will be bringing forward a revised explanatory memorandum to reflect the changes that have been agreed already by amendment.
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Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Okay. Fine.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Okay. Well, if you want to give me the opportunity at the end, that's fine, as long as I get it at some point.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Yes. Well, can I just say a couple of other things, Chair, then, as this is my last opportunity to speak in today's proceedings? Can I just make a few closing remarks, if that's okay?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
I should say that it continues the power that the Welsh Ministers have to correct it. It's not giving us anything; it's a continuation.
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Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Yes, we might have made a mistake, or—. In all fairness, planning law interacts with pretty much everything you can think of, so there may be something that we've neglected and this gives the Welsh Ministers the power to correct that. I think that's right.
