1.11 Wales and Devolution

1.11.1 Wales Devolution

1.11.1.1. Implementing the remaining Silk Part 1 proposals on financial powers for Wales. We will consider the work of the Government’s review on the devolution of Air Passenger Duty (APD), with a view to devolving long-haul APD.

1.11.1.2. Transferring powers from the UK Parliament to the National Assembly over S4C, sewerage, transport, teachers’ pay, youth justice, policing and in the longer term other justice powers. 

1.11.1.3. Strengthening the capacity of the National Assembly to scrutinise legislation and hold the Welsh Government to account.

1.11.1.4. Providing for a Welsh Parliament, preventing Westminster from being able to override Wales on devolved matters, and devolving the power to amend electoral arrangements for the Assembly and local elections in Wales with a two-thirds majority.