Tag: Silk Commission
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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…
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Alan Trench: Implementing Silk in Wales: An Update.
The UK Government has now published its proposals for the implementation ofthe Silk Commission’s Part 1 report, following its announcement at the beginning of November (and so managed to get its response in just before the anniversary of the publication of the Commission’s report). The Wales Office’s news release is here and the paper itself, Empowerment and responsibility: devolving financial…