Tag: Draft Wales Bill 2015
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Mark Elliott and Stephen Tierney: House of Lords Constitution Committee Reports on Wales Bill
The House of Lords Constitution Committee today publishes its report on the Wales Bill. The history of the Bill is a somewhat chequered one, a Draft Bill published in October 2015 having been subjected to excoriating criticism by (among others) the Assembly’s Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee. The centrepiece of the Bill is intended to…
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Alan Trench: Not Meeting the Challenge: The Failings of the Draft Wales Bill
Cross-posted from British Politics and Policy. The draft Wales bill is far from the fair, clear and lasting devolution settlement Wales seeks, writes Alan Trench. Drawing on a project hosted jointly by The Constitution Unit and The Wales Governance Centre, he explains that the ‘necessity test’ and the not thought-through ‘reserved powers’ approach would make…
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Robert Thomas: The Draft Wales Bill 2015 – Part 2
Editors’ note: This is the second in a two-part contribution by Prof Robert Thomas on the draft Wales Bill. The first part appeared on Wednesday, 2 December 2015. An earlier post considered some aspects of the draft Wales Bill. This second post examines the issue of legislative competence and the proposed new necessity test. Legislative…
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Robert Thomas: The Draft Wales Bill 2015 – Part 1
Editors’ note: This is the first in a two-part contribution by Prof Robert Thomas on the draft Wales Bill. The second part will appear tomorrow, 3 December 2015. This post examines the background to the draft Wales Bill, its principal features, and the provisions concerning ministerial powers. On 20 October 2015, the UK Government published…