The delayed Welsh Grand Committee debate on the Queen’s Speech took place today. A fair number of members were in attendance, but the edge had been taken off the debate by the lapse of time since the Speech itself.
There was considerable discussion on the arcane issue of pre-legislative scrutiny of legislative competence orders. Most Members from both sides of the House expressed the view that if the Welsh Assembly thought the orders should go through on the nod, it could think again.
Lembit Öpik made a brief, but interesting contribution, when he suggested in an intervention that roads in rural Powys could be improved by building “semi-dual carriageways”.
I’ve got news for you, Lembit: we’ve got them already. They’re called single carriageways.
There was considerable discussion on the arcane issue of pre-legislative scrutiny of legislative competence orders. Most Members from both sides of the House expressed the view that if the Welsh Assembly thought the orders should go through on the nod, it could think again.
Lembit Öpik made a brief, but interesting contribution, when he suggested in an intervention that roads in rural Powys could be improved by building “semi-dual carriageways”.
I’ve got news for you, Lembit: we’ve got them already. They’re called single carriageways.
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