Clause 3 - Review of exercise of functions of Assembly and other persons
Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill
9:30 am
Mr Win Griffiths (Bridgend, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman may recall that, in introducing amendment No. 46 last Tuesday afternoon, I was at great pains to say that the difference between the two amendments was that, technically, it operated within the Government of Wales Act 1998, whereby representations would be made to the Assembly, but that it did not constrain the Commissioner from making appropriate representations when he felt that children's rights and welfare needed to be defended or promoted. I do not see that amendment No. 46 would constrain him to only devolved matters; it is simply a technical means to keep him within the devolution settlement.