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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff work in the Devolved Countries Unit as of 1 July 2023; and if he provide the respective pay grades of the staff in that unit.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff work in the Devolved Countries Unit as of 1 July 2023; and if he provide the respective pay grades of the staff in that unit.
HM Treasury, as with all central government departments, publishes organograms each quarter showing all staff roles and salary scales on gov.uk:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November to Question 93503 on Government Departments: Devolution, whether the Concordat on Statistics between the UK Government and devolved Administrations covers the sharing of details of the recipients of DWP benefits with...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November to Question 93503 on Government Departments: Devolution, whether the Concordat on Statistics between the UK Government and devolved Administrations covers the sharing of details of the recipients of DWP benefits with...
The Concordat on Statistics sets out a framework for statistical co-operation between the UK Government and devolved administrations in relation to the production of statistics for and within the UK, statistical standards and the statistics profession.
The Department for Work and Pensions engages with Welsh Government and Welsh local authorities on statistical data sharing initiatives where there is a legal power to do so and the appropriate data sharing governance (agreements) have been put in place.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with the devolved Administrations on data sharing arrangements between government Departments and those administrations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with the devolved Administrations on data sharing arrangements between government Departments and those administrations.
The Government aims to improve data sharing and comparability of data across different parts of the United Kingdom and therefore works closely with the UK Statistics Authority to promote efficient data sharing arrangements, in line with the Concordat on Statistics. The Concordat, which was signed in 2016 and refreshed in October 2021 sets out a framework for statistical co-operation between the UK Government and devolved administrations. The UK Statistics Authority regularly meets with the devolved administrations to uphold the Concordat, working together to improve data linking and sharing.
UK Government Departments and devolved administrations also engage on the National Data Strategy, which sets out our ambitions to transform the way data is collected, managed, used and shared across government and across the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the membership of the Trade and Agriculture Commission will contain representatives from the (a) Welsh Government, (b) Scottish Government and (c) Northern Ireland Executive.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the membership of the Trade and Agriculture Commission will contain representatives from the (a) Welsh Government, (b) Scottish Government and (c) Northern Ireland Executive.
The Secretary of State for International Trade signalled her intention to establish a new Trade and Agriculture Commission on 29 June. The Commission will have a fixed term to consider trade policies that Government should adopt to secure opportunities for UK farmers, producers and exporters. The Commission will ensure the sector remains competitive and that animal welfare and environmental standards in food production are not undermined. At the end of its work, the Trade and Agriculture Commission will produce an advisory report which will be presented to Parliament by the Department for International Trade.
Details around the Commission’s membership and Terms of Reference are currently being finalised and we will inform Parliament as soon as all these details are confirmed.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that there are representatives of the devolved Administrations on the Trade Remedies Authority.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that there are representatives of the devolved Administrations on the Trade Remedies Authority.
The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) Board will be crucial to safeguarding the TRA’s impartiality and making sure that it acts in the interest of all parts of the United Kingdom.
We are engaging with the devolved administrations, in line with HM Government’s commitments during the passage of the Trade Bill in 2017-18, and recently sought their proposals on recruiting TRA Board Members with knowledge of the United Kingdom as a whole, a broad range of skills and diverse experience. However, it is essential that members are appointed on merit, rather than due to their affiliations with any particular part of the United Kingdom or special interest group.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has been invited to attend the Department for International Trade's Ministerial Forum for Trade with the devolved administrations planned for January 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has been invited to attend the Department for International Trade's Ministerial Forum for Trade with the devolved administrations planned for January 2020.
DIT is establishing the Ministerial Forum for Trade to ensure that the views of the Devolved Administrations are taken into consideration as we establish our independent trade policy. Territorial Office Ministers will be invited to meetings of the Forum by the Chair, as appropriate, including the inaugural meeting. The Secretary of State for Wales attends a wide range of events and meetings to ensure that UKG policy delivers for Wales, including trade policy.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential for devolved institutions to further their commitment to climate change action by creating a development finance institution similar to the CDC.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential for devolved institutions to further their commitment to climate change action by creating a development finance institution similar to the CDC.
DFID has made no assessment of the potential for devolved institutions to create their own development finance institution.
CDC is the UK’s development finance institution, wholly owned by the UK government. CDC’s mission is to support the growth of businesses in Africa and South Asia, to create jobs and make a lasting difference to people’s lives in some of the world’s poorest places. It does this work on behalf of the whole of the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress has been made on the development of a Ministerial forum with the devolved Administrations international trade.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress has been made on the development of a Ministerial forum with the devolved Administrations international trade.
The Department for International Trade has been making good progress establishing the Ministerial Forum for Trade with the devolved administrations. We hope to hold the first meeting this month.
Ten minute rule motion for leave to bring in a Bill. Agreed to on question. Presentation and first reading (Bill 437). To be read a second time on 3 October 2019.
Ten minute rule motion for leave to bring in a Bill. Agreed to on question. Presentation and first reading (Bill 437). To be read a second time on 3 October 2019.
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Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) (PC):
The British Government are in meltdown, Westminster is completely dysfunctional, and this morning the Wales Office lost its fourth Minister in a year. Who could possibly say that Westminster is working for Wales?
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Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) (PC):
The British Government are in meltdown, Westminster is completely dysfunctional, and this morning the Wales Office lost its fourth Minister in a year. Who could possibly say that Westminster is working for Wales?
The hon. Gentleman should look at the funding that has been made available to Wales by this Westminster Government. He talks about
the Government of Wales. There are indeed issues there that I think we should be focusing on, such as the national health service in Wales under a Labour Government. [Interruption.] Yes, Members may well point. That is what we see when Labour is in office: a national health service that has not met its A&E target for over a decade.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2018 to Question 176223 on Housing Associations: Finance, whether that new spending will result in Barnett consequentials for the devolved administrations.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2018 to Question 176223 on Housing Associations: Finance, whether that new spending will result in Barnett consequentials for the devolved administrations.
UK Government departments have not been set budgets beyond the current Spending Review period. The Barnett Formula will be applied in the normal way at the next Spending Review to the additional allocations to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Yesterday, the Russian Federation formally objected to the post-Brexit schedule proposed by the UK at the World Trade Organisation. Unless the Russian veto is removed, if there is no deal, Welsh companies will not be able to trade on WTO terms. What discussions has the Minister had with the Welsh Government about this catastrophic likely outcome for the Welsh economy?
Yesterday, the Russian Federation formally objected to the post-Brexit schedule proposed by the UK at the World Trade Organisation. Unless the Russian veto is removed, if there is no deal, Welsh companies will not be able to trade on WTO terms. What discussions has the Minister had with the Welsh Government about this catastrophic likely outcome for the Welsh economy?
The hon. Gentleman refers to something that happened yesterday. I understand that the Department for International Trade has already responded and said that such objections at the WTO are not unusual and that it is already taking steps to address them.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Devolution Guidance Note: Parliamentary and Assembly Primary Legislation Affecting Wales, for what reason only the devolution guidance relating to Wales mentions changes to devolved competence in relation to the UK leaving the EU.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Devolution Guidance Note: Parliamentary and Assembly Primary Legislation Affecting Wales, for what reason only the devolution guidance relating to Wales mentions changes to devolved competence in relation to the UK leaving the EU.
The Devolution Guidance Note for Wales was updated to take account of the new reserved powers model introduced by the Wales Act 2017, which came into effect on 1 April 2018. The revised guidance was published on 20 April 2018.
This guidance describes the devolution settlement as it currently has effect, and it is under constant review in order to reflect any changes. Leaving the EU will see considerable additional decision-making powers flow to the National Assembly for Wales and so we will need to update the guidance in due course to reflect these new powers
At the last session of the Joint Ministerial Committee (Plenary), Ministers agreed to review the current intergovernmental structures in light of the UK's exit from the EU to ensure they are fit for purpose. It is important that the Devolution Guidance Notes are also updated to reflect any further changes agreed as a result of this process.
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Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) (PC):
This week sees the seventh anniversary of the 2011 referendum in Wales, at which the people of my country overwhelmingly supported full legislative sovereignty over devolved policy areas. Despite the perceived concessions in this week’s speech by the de facto Deputy Prime Minister, the withdrawal Bill will drive a sledgehammer through the Welsh constitution. Is it not the reality that under her plans for Brexit Britannia, Wales will be a rule-taker—a vassal country?
Q14
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Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) (PC):
This week sees the seventh anniversary of the 2011 referendum in Wales, at which the people of my country overwhelmingly supported full legislative sovereignty over devolved policy areas. Despite the perceived concessions in this week’s speech by the de facto Deputy Prime Minister, the withdrawal Bill will drive a sledgehammer through the Welsh constitution. Is it not the reality that under her plans for Brexit Britannia, Wales will be a rule-taker—a vassal country?
The hon. Gentleman is wrong about our proposal for the devolved Administrations: we will be devolving far more powers to the devolved Administrations. Indeed, the Government did that only recently in the Wales Act 2017, which devolved more powers to the Welsh Government. We are absolutely clear that we want to see the vast majority of powers returning from Brussels starting off in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, not Whitehall, but we are also clear that
where powers relate to the UK as a whole it makes sense for us to ensure that they continue to apply across the whole of the UK in the same way.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the powers devolved to the Welsh Government on income tax.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the powers devolved to the Welsh Government on income tax.
The UK government is devolving powers over Welsh rates of income tax to the Welsh Assembly. From April 2019, the Welsh Government will be able to set the basic, higher, and additional rates of income tax in Wales. These new tax powers, combined with the new funding settlement agreed in the Welsh Government’s fiscal framework, will mean the Welsh Government is responsible for raising more of what it spends. This paves the way to making the Welsh Assembly a more powerful, accountable and mature institution, with greater powers and responsibilities to grow and support the Welsh economy.
Motion that this House has considered the devolution of the Wales and Borders franchise. Agreed to on question.
Motion that this House has considered the devolution of the Wales and Borders franchise. Agreed to on question.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what mechanisms will be put in place to ensure effective consultation with the devolved administrations on proposals made in the Transport Investment Strategy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what mechanisms will be put in place to ensure effective consultation with the devolved administrations on proposals made in the Transport Investment Strategy.
Although transport issues are substantially devolved in the UK, all four Governments work together on matters where the respective infrastructure policy responsibilities of the UK government and devolved administrations overlap.
The Transport Investment Strategy sets out principles for future investment decisions, including as to the balance between the need to keep decision-making as close as possible to the people affected and the need to ensure the coherence and integrity of national networks. We will continue to work closely with the Devolved Administrations on areas of mutual interest, for example on long-distance rail lines such as the East and West Coast Mainlines, or HS2.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether it is the Government's policy that all powers not explicitly reserved to Westminster under the devolution settlements will be directly transferred to the devolved administrations after the UK leaves the EU.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether it is the Government's policy that all powers not explicitly reserved to Westminster under the devolution settlements will be directly transferred to the devolved administrations after the UK leaves the EU.
The UK Government is absolutely committed to working with the Devolved Administrations as we prepare for our negotiations with the EU. This is exactly why we have set up a new Joint Ministerial Committee on EU Negotiations, which brings together constituent parts of the United Kingdom to develop a UK-wide approach to our negotiations and to discuss issues stemming from the negotiation process which may impact upon or have consequences for the UK Government, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government or the Northern Ireland Executive. Where powers should best sit will be a matter for further consultation and discussion across the United Kingdom.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what representations his Department has received from the Welsh Government on the devolution of Air Passenger Duty.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what representations his Department has received from the Welsh Government on the devolution of Air Passenger Duty.
The Government has reviewed options to support regional airports that might be affected by the devolution of Air Passenger Duty and received a number of representations in response to the discussion paper that was published as part of that review. HM Treasury published a summary of those responses here:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations his Department has received from the Welsh Government on the devolution of Air Passenger Duty.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations his Department has received from the Welsh Government on the devolution of Air Passenger Duty.
The Chancellor discusses matters of interest with his counterparts in the devolved administrations, including APD where relevant.
In line with practice of successive administrations details of ministerial discussions are not routinely disclosed.