Wales Office - HM Government - Draft Wales Bill - Cm. 8773
Title | Wales Office - HM Government - Draft Wales Bill - Cm. 8773 PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Wales Office |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2013-12-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780101877329 |
The draft Wales Bill is presented for pre-legislative scrutiny. The Bill implements almost all of the recommendations from the first report from the Independent Commission in Devolution in Wales (the Silk Commission) on the devolution of tax and borrowing powers to the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government. This paper includes English and Welsh language texts of the draft Bill, explanatory notes and a summary impact assessment
Draft Wales Bill
Title | Draft Wales Bill PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Wales Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2015-10-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474125031 |
Dated October 2015. Print and web pdfs available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications Web ISBN=9781474125048
Report on the UK Government's Draft Wales Bill
Title | Report on the UK Government's Draft Wales Bill PDF eBook |
Author | Wales. National Assembly. Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
House of Commons - Welsh Affairs Committee: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft Wales Bill - HC 962
Title | House of Commons - Welsh Affairs Committee: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft Wales Bill - HC 962 PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2014-03-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780215069313 |
The draft Wales Bill was published following the recommendations of the Silk Commission in November 2012. It sets out to devolve tax and borrowing powers to the Welsh Government and National Assembly for Wales, make changes to the electoral arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales, and clarify and update the devolution settlement. The Government hopes that the provisions in the draft Wales Bill will enable devolved governance in Wales to become more accountable. The cross-party Committee believes partial devolution of income tax to the Welsh Government should be put to the people of Wales in a referendum. The cross-party Committee also has sympathy with the argument that the issue of "fair funding" must be resolved before any income tax powers are devolved so that Wales is not unfairly disadvantaged. The issue of fair funding - how the size of the block grant from the UK Government is determined, currently by the Barnett formula which has long been criticised as providing an unfairly low allocation to Wales - needs to be examined and should not wait until after the 2015 General Election. The National Assembly for Wales should have power to decide its own Assembly term length, rather than this being decided at Westminster. The Committee recommends the clause in the draft Bill which permanently extends the length of the Assembly from four to five years should be scrapped and replaced with provisions that give the National Assembly the powers to determine the length of its own electoral term.
Wales Bill
Title | Wales Bill PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Wales Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474101288 |
Class, Community and the Labour Movement
Title | Class, Community and the Labour Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Committee on Canadian Labour History |
Publisher | [St. John's, Nfld.] : LLAFUR/CCLH |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Papers from a conference of Committee on Canadian Labour History and Llafur, the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, held in April 1987 near Newtown in Mid-Wales.
Forsaken
Title | Forsaken PDF eBook |
Author | British Columbia. Missing Women Commission of Inquiry |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2012-10 |
Genre | Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.) |
ISBN | 9780991729951 |