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Legislative Competence) (Welsh Language) Order 2009 House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Welsh Language) Order 2009 Ninth Report of Session 2008–09 Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30 June 2009 HC 348 Published on 7 July 2009 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £0.00 The Welsh Affairs Committee The Welsh Affairs Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales). Current membership Dr Hywel Francis MP (Labour, Aberavon) (Chairman) Mr David T.C. Davies MP (Conservative, Monmouth) Ms Nia Griffith MP (Labour, Llanelli) Mrs Siân C. James MP (Labour, Swansea East) Mr David Jones MP (Conservative, Clwyd West) Mr Martyn Jones MP (Labour, Clwyd South) Rt Hon Alun Michael MP (Labour and Co-operative, Cardiff South and Penarth) Mr Albert Owen MP (Labour, Ynys Môn) Mr Mark Pritchard MP (Conservative, The Wrekin) Mr Mark Williams MP (Liberal Democrat, Ceredigion) Mr Hywel Williams MP (Plaid Cymru, Caernarfon) Powers The committee is one of the Departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publications The reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the internet at www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/welsh_affairs_committee.cfm. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee is Dr Sue Griffiths (Clerk), Georgina Holmes- Skelton (Second Clerk), Judy Goodall (Inquiry Manager), Anwen Rees (Inquiry Manager), Carys Jones (Committee Specialist), Christine Randall (Senior Committee Assistant), Annabel Goddard (Committee Assistant), Tes Stranger (Committee Support Assistant) and Rebecca Jones (Media Officer). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Welsh Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 6189 and the Committee’s email address is [email protected]. Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Welsh Language) Order 2009 1 Contents Report Page Summary 3 1 Introduction 6 Background 6 Introduction of the proposed Order 6 The LCO process in this instance 7 The Welsh Affairs Committee’s inquiry 9 2 Purpose of the proposed Order 9 The proposed Order and existing Welsh Assembly Government policy 10 Current legislative constraints 10 3 Scope of the proposed Order 13 Demand for further legislation 13 Support for the transference of competence 14 The need for clarity 15 Scope of Matter 20.1 17 Use of categories 18 Impact on the private sector 19 “Services to the public” 22 Enactment or prerogative instrument (paragraph (c)) 25 Persons overseeing the regulation of a profession or industry (paragraph (f))27 “Public money amounting to £200,000 or more” (paragraph (e)) 28 Gas, water or electricity services (paragraph (h) (i)) 32 Telecommunications (paragraph (h) (iv)) 33 Railway services and other transport (paragraph (h) (vi)) 35 Broadcasting 36 Ministers of the Crown and Ministerial Departments 37 Conclusions of the Assembly scrutiny committee 37 Matter 20.1: conclusion 39 4 Terms used in the proposed Order 40 “Freedom” to use the Welsh language (Matter 20.2) 40 “Official status” 42 Enacting words 44 5 Conclusion 44 Conclusions and recommendations 46 List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament 57 Formal Minutes 53 2 Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Welsh Language) Order 2009 Witnesses 54 List of written evidence 55 Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Welsh Language) Order 2009 3 Summary The Government of Wales Act 2006 introduced a procedure whereby the National Assembly for Wales can bring forward proposals which would extend the Assembly’s lawmaking powers by way of Legislative Competence Orders in Council. The Orders do not themselves change the general law for Wales—they pave the way to subsequent ‘Measures’ to change the law applying to Wales within the devolved areas of legislative competence. This proposed Order would enable the National Assembly for Wales to make new legislative provision for promoting and facilitating the use of the Welsh language and the freedom of persons to use Welsh in their dealings with others if they so wish. It also lists the categories of bodies that the Assembly would be able to make subject to future duties to provide Welsh language services in Matter 20.1. Those upon whom duties would actually be imposed would be a matter for Assembly legislation, but must fall within the categories contained in the Order. We consider that a good case has been made that the National Assembly for Wales should have the ability to modernise and bring consistency to legislation relating to the use of the Welsh language. The transfer of competence appears, in this regard, logical and appropriate. It will locate responsibility for the Welsh language in the social context where it is rooted and where its effects will be most evident. Support for this principle was clear in our inquiry, but concerns were expressed by some witnesses about the way in which the scope of the draft Order is currently defined. We believe that these criticisms reflect practical drafting issues rather than serious or significant constitutional or policy differences. The draft Order brings into scope bodies receiving more than £200,000 of public money in a year. The principle that organisations benefiting from substantial public funds should fulfil public responsibilities is an appropriate one. However, this threshold, which would represent a large sum for some organisations and be less significant for others, has no clear relevance to the service received by customers or the public and is not based on any clear principle or analysis. It seems instead to have been chosen more or less at random. In addition, the types of public money that would qualify a body for inclusion are not clearly set out. Other concerns about the scope of the proposed Order include: • Utilities and telecommunications are specified in the LCO, but not banks or insurance services. The basis of the distinction between the different bodies which are regarded as key “public services” is not clear. • We are not convinced that the need for energy production and transmission services to be included in the proposed Order has been demonstrated. • We understand that it is not the intention of the Welsh Assembly Government to impose duties on smaller bodies, such as NGOs, charities, organisations established by Royal Charter and companies with small numbers of employees, but many such bodies fall within the scope as the Order is currently drafted. • Whilst we received evidence on the work of language commissioners elsewhere, we did not receive more detailed evidence on the role of the proposed language commissioner 4 Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Welsh Language) Order 2009 in Wales. We suggest that it would be helpful for the Wales Office to invite the Welsh Assembly Government to clarify its intentions in this respect as soon as possible and in any event before it publishes the Measure, and to indicate the process of consultation it will use to win for the language commissioner the sort of public support enjoyed by other commissioners such as the Children’s Commissioner and the Commissioner for Older People. We are of the view that powers to make legislation relating to the Welsh language should be transferred to the Assembly, but only on the basis of legislative precision. This would benefit both the Assembly, by providing a solid legislative foundation for its Measures, and those who will be subject to the legislation, by providing them with clarity and a degree of certainty. In order to achieve the Welsh Assembly Government’s stated objective to provide consistency of service for the consumer and public, a level playing field for business, and fairness in terms of the impact on a variety of businesses and other organisations of varying sizes, we recommend that the draft Order that is eventually presented to the House for approval should have a much more clearly defined scope. It is for the Welsh Assembly Government to propose draft legislation, which we then scrutinise, but we have given some consideration to how the scope of the proposed Order can be improved. We suggest that a more sophisticated and appropriate way of dealing with the issues of definition would be for this Order to contain clear principles against which the Assembly Measures can be tested. One way to achieve this would be for the Welsh Assembly Government to insert in this draft Order tests that have to be met by any Measure subsequent to this LCO, rather than trying to insert definitions themselves in the text. These might include a test of reasonableness, a test of proportionality, and a consideration of the cost to demonstrate that the application of any Measure to particular bodies or organisations will, in the long term, provide a cost-effective benefit to the public in terms of the use of the Welsh language. This would mean that instead of the Order defining those who will be affected by subsequent Measures there is greater clarity of purpose and definition of what is to be achieved, leaving it to any individual Measure to provide a definition that satisfies those tests. This would fit better with the principles of devolution and with the LCO process than depending on a list of categories, whether that list were to be the rather unsatisfactory list contained in this draft or even a better-defined list.
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