National Assembly for Wales

The National Assembly for Wales () is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs (). Members are elected for four year terms under an additional members system, where forty AMs represent geographical constituencies elected by the plurality system, and twenty AMs from five electoral regions using the d'Hondt method of proportional representation.

Following a referendum in 1997, the Assembly was created by the Government of Wales Act 1998. Most of the powers of the Welsh Office and Secretary of State for Wales were transferred to the Assembly. When first created, the Assembly had no powers to initiate primary legislation. However, following the passing of the Government of Wales Act 2006, the Assembly now has powers to legislate in some areas through Assembly Measures, though still subject to the veto of the Secretary of State or the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

Road to the Assembly

The establishment of the Welsh Office in 1964 effectively created the basis for the territorial governance of Wales. The Royal Commission on the Constitution (the Kilbrandon Commission) was set up in 1969 by Harold Wilson's Labour Government to investigate the possibility of devolution for Scotland and Wales. Its recommendations formed the basis of the 1974 White Paper Democracy and Devolution: proposals for Scotland and Wales, After the 1997 general election, the new Labour Government argued that an Assembly would be more democratically accountable than the Welsh Office. For eleven years prior to 1997 Wales had been represented in the UK cabinet by a Secretary of State who did not represent a Welsh constituency at Westminster. A second referendum was held on 18 September 1997 in which voters approved the creation of the National Assembly for Wales by a majority of just 6,712 votes.

The following year the Government of Wales Act was passed by Parliament, establishing the Assembly.

In July 2002, the Welsh Assembly Government established an independent commission, with Lord Richard (former leader of the House of Lords) as chair, to review the powers and electoral arrangements of the National Assembly in order to ensure that it is able to operate in the best interests of the people of Wales. The Richard Commission reported in March 2004. It recommended that the National Assembly should have powers to legislate in certain areas, whilst others would remain the preserve of Westminster. In so doing, the Government rejected many of the cross party Richard Commission's recommendations. This has attracted criticism from opposition parties and others.

Recent polls suggest that a majority of the Welsh support full legislative powers. over 80% of people in Wales want a new parliament according to a new survey published in 2008 and Assembly members are willing to extend further powers to Cardiff Bay from Westminster.

Enhanced powers: The Government of Wales Act 2006

The Government of Wales Act 2006 received Royal Assent on 25 July 2006. It confers on the Assembly legislative powers similar to other devolved legislatures through the ability to pass Assembly Measures, although legislative competence requests will be subject to the veto of the Secretary of State for Wales, House of Commons or House of Lords.

The Act reforms the assembly to a parliamentary-type structure, establishing the Assembly Government as an entity separate from, but accountable to the National Assembly. It enables the Assembly to legislate within its devolved fields.

The Act also reforms the Assembly's electoral system. It prevents individuals from standing as candidates in both constituency and regional seats. This aspect of the act was subject to a great deal of criticism, most notably from the Electoral Commission.

The Act has been heavily criticised. Plaid Cymru, the Official Opposition in the National Assembly from 1999–2007, attacked it for not delivering a fully-fledged Parliament. Many commentators have also criticised the Labour Party's allegedly partisan attempt to alter the electoral system. By preventing regional Assembly Members from standing in constituency seats the party has been accused of changing the rules to protect constituency representatives. Labour had 29 members in the Assembly at the time, all of whom held constituency seats.

The changes to the Assembly's powers were commenced on 4 May 2007, after the election.

Buildings

Senedd

The debating chamber in Cardiff Bay, the Senedd (English:Senate), was designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and built by Taylor Woodrow, with environmental and MEP design by BDSP Partnership. It uses traditional Welsh materials such as slate and Welsh Oak in its construction, and the design is based around the concepts of openness and transparency. The Timber ceiling and centre funnel, manufactured and installed by BCL Timber Projects (sub-contracted by Taylor Woodrow) is made from Canadian sourced Western Red Cedar.

The Senedd houses the debating chamber () and Committee Rooms. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on St. David's Day, 1 March 2006.

, home to the National Assembly for Wales]] The Senedd is designed to be environmentally friendly: it uses an Earth Heat Exchange system for heating; rainwater is collected from the roof and used for flushing toilets and cleaning windows, and the roof features a wind cowl which funnels natural light and air into the debating chamber below.

Tŷ Hywel, Pierhead Building and Cathays Park Buildings

The debating chamber was initially based in Ty Hywel, next to the site of the present building. The offices of Assembly Members are still in this building which is connected to the Senedd by a skyway. The National Assembly for Wales Commission is also responsible for the Pierhead Building, which is the location of "The Assembly at the Pierhead" exhibition, and is the Visitor and Education Centre for the National Assembly for Wales as well as housing a small giftshop. The exhibition (currently still in the process of being updated following May's election) provides visitors with a unique opportunity to access the most up-to-date information on who's who, what's happening and how the Assembly works. Cathays Park consists of two buildings; the older building contains offices for the First Minister for Wales and senior civil servants, whilst the newer building is a large modern building built as an extension to the older building.

Elected officials

After each election, the Assembly elects one Assembly Member to serve as Presiding Officer (), and another to serve as a deputy. Lord Elis-Thomas, Plaid Cymru AM, has been Presiding Officer since the Assembly was created, and was re-elected to the position on 9 May 2007. Rosemary Butler AM was elected as his deputy. The Presiding Officer also acts as Chair of the National Assembly for Wales Commission.

Permanent officials

As with the Scottish Government, the permanent administrative and support staff of the Welsh Assembly are UK civil servants with the same constitutional status as their colleagues in the Wales Office and other Whitehall departments.

Powers and status

appears on Assembly Measures]] The National Assembly consists of 60 elected members. They use the title Assembly Member (AM) or Aelod y Cynulliad (AC). The executive arm of the National Assembly for Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government, has been a coalition between Labour—led by First Minister, Carwyn Jones—and Plaid Cymru—led by Deputy First Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones—since December 2009.

The executive and civil servants are mainly based in Cardiff's Cathays Park while the Assembly Members, the Assembly Commission and Ministerial support staff are based in Cardiff Bay where a new £67 million Assembly Building, known as the Senedd, has recently been built.

One important feature of the National Assembly until 2007 was that there was no legal or constitutional separation of the legislative and executive functions, since it was a single corporate entity. Compared with other parliamentary systems, and arrangements for devolution in other countries of the UK, this was highly unusual. In practice, however, there was separation of functions, and the terms "Assembly" and "Assembly Parliamentary Service" came into use to distinguish between the two arms. The Government of Wales Act 2006 regularised the separation when it came into effect following the 2007 Assembly Election.

Initially, the Assembly did not have primary legislative or fiscal powers, as these powers were reserved by Westminster. The Assembly did have powers to pass secondary legislation in devolved areas. Sometimes secondary legislation could be used to amend primary legislation, but the scope of this was very limited. for example, the first Government of Wales Act gave the Assembly power to amend primary legislation relating to the merger of certain public bodies. However, most secondary powers were conferred on the executive by primary legislation to give the executive (i.e., Ministers) more powers, and the Assembly has had wider legislative powers than appearances might suggest. For example, the Assembly delayed local elections due to be held in 2003 for a year by use of secondary powers, so that they would not correspond with Assembly elections. In 2001 the UK parliament used primary legislation to delay for one month local elections in England during the Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic.

The Assembly gained limited primary legislative powers following the 2007 election and the passage of the Government of Wales Act 2006. These laws are known as Assembly Measures and can be enacted in specific fields and matters within the legislative competency of the Assembly. New matters and fields can be devolved by Acts of the UK Parliament or by LCOs approved by Parliament.

While in principle the Assembly has no tax-varying powers, in reality it has some very limited power over taxes. For example, in Wales, as in England, the rate of Council Tax is set by local authorities, but since the Assembly largely determines the level of grants to local councils, it can influence the level of local taxation indirectly. It also has some discretion over charges for government services. Notable examples where this discretion has been used to create significant differences from other areas in the UK include:

# Charges for NHS prescriptions in Wales — these have now been abolished. # Charges for University Tuition — are different for Welsh resident students studying at Welsh Universities, compared with students from or studying elsewhere in the UK. # Charging for Residential Care — In Wales there is a flat rate of contribution towards the cost of nursing care, (roughly comparable to the highest level of English Contribution) for those who require residential care.

This means in reality that there is a wider definition of "nursing care" than in England and therefore less dependence on means testing in Wales than in England, meaning that more people are entitled to higher levels of state assistance. These variations in the levels of charges may be viewed as de facto tax varying powers.

This model of more limited legislative powers was partly due to the fact that Wales has had the same legal system as England since 1536, when it was merged with England. Ireland and Scotland were never merged by England, and so always retained some distinct differences in their legal systems. The Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly both have deeper and wider powers.

The Assembly inherited the powers and budget of the Secretary of State for Wales and most of the functions of the Welsh Office. It has power to vary laws passed by Westminster using secondary legislation. Cheryl Gillan, who represents the English constituency of Chesham and Amersham, in the Westminster Parliament is currently the Secretary of State for Wales.

Devolved areas

The National Assembly for Wales has the competence to make Assembly Measures for the "Matters" in the 20 "Fields" outlined in Schedule 5 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.

Those fields are:

* Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and rural development

Ancient monuments and historic buildings

Culture

Economic development

Education and training

Environment

Fire and rescue services and promotion of fire safety

Food

Health and health services

Highways and transport

Housing

Local government

Public administration

Social welfare

Sport and recreation

Tourism

Town and country planning

Water and flood defence

Welsh language

Measure making competence is limited to specific Matters identified within each Field. Matters can be added to each field by Legislative Competency Orders (LCOs).

The National Assembly for Wales also has matters to legislate which governs the body itself, mainly the costs of passing Assembly Measures and the register of interests.

Members, constituencies, and electoral system

Under mixed member proportional representation, a type of additional member system, forty of the AMs are elected from single-member constituencies on a plurality voting system (or first past the post) basis, the constituencies being equivalent to those used for the House of Commons and twenty AMs are elected from regional closed lists using an alternative party vote. There are five regions: Mid and West Wales, North Wales, South Wales Central, South Wales East and South Wales West (these are the same as the pre 1999 European Parliament constituencies for Wales), each of which returns four members. Consequently, the Assembly as a whole has a greater degree of proportionality (based on proportions in the list elections) than the plurality voting system used for UK parliamentary elections, but still deviates somewhat from proportionality. Mohammed Asghar, elected for Plaid Cymru, joined the Conservative Party group in December 2009. Mick Bates AM, was suspended by the Welsh Liberal Democrats after he was given a court summons for an alleged assault against a paramedic.

References

External links

National Assembly for Wales (Assembly website)

WalesCymru: Assembly

Welsh politicians, including those of Welsh descent in other countries

Assembly website in Welsh/Gwefan y Cynulliad yn Gymraeg

NAW: Constituencies and Electoral Regions (map of the constituencies showing current members)

NAW: Who? - Elected Members (list of members by constituency)

Government of Wales Act 1998

Government of Wales Act 2006

Government of Wales Act 2006 website

BBC's Senedd guide

National Assembly for Wales - Video

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Richard Torbay Speaker NSW has a message for the National Assembly for Wales / Cynulliad Cymru

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www.assemblywales.org In a further significant step to ensure that there are rigorous and independent mechanisms for deciding what Assembly Members in Wales get paid, the National Assembly Commission today (22 September) announced the appointment of a Chair and Members to the National Assembly Remuneration Board. The Board will have responsibility for setting the pay and allowances for Assembly Members. The independent Remuneration Board will be responsible for ensuring that Assembly Members have fair and appropriate resources to do their vital job of representing the people of Wales, holding the Welsh Government to account and making laws for Wales. In setting up this new Board, the Assembly Commission and Assembly Members have made clear their determination to end the practice of Assembly Members deciding their own pay and expenses. The appointments follow the National Assembly for Wales (Remuneration) Measure 2010 being granted royal approval by Her Majesty the Queen in July.

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Clare Hudson Interview @ Pierhead Sessions

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As the eleventh Doctor prepares to make his debut this spring, the session Made in Wales: Doctor Who, programmed in collaboration with BBC Cymru Wales, examined the success of Doctor Who and the impact it has had in Cardiff, Wales and beyond. The session will also looked forward to the new season of Doctor Who under the stewardship of Piers Wenger and the new Doctor, Matt Smith. After the session, Clare Hudson (Head of Programming, English, BBC Cymru Wales) gave this exclusive interview to Pierhead Sessions TV. To watch the session go to www.pierheadsessions.org. The three day Pierhead Sessions took place from 4th - 6th March 2010 in the Pierhead Building, which is located opposite the Senedd building in Cardiff Bay. The Pierhead Sessions are an engaging and entertaining series of events staged with the enthusiastic help of partners, marking together the 10th year of the National Assembly for Wales on its estate of public buildings on Cardiff Bay. Produced by The Festivals Company for the National Assembly for Wales Commission in conjunction with partners.

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