Clause 3 - Review of exercise of functions of Assembly and other persons
Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill
10:30 am
Mr Robert Walter (North Dorset, Conservative)
I was not making a commitment to finish our proceedings today, just saying that I hoped that we would be able to do so.
The amendments give powers to the Assembly and, more particularly, to the Secretary of State, to extend the Children's Commissioner's remit beyond those matters that are devolved to the National Assembly for Wales to non-devolved areas that may be described as cross-border issues. At our previous sitting, I referred to several issues, including some non-devolved issues that were specifically Welsh, such as S4C, whose privatisation the Conservative party is not favour of, which we compared with the Welsh Language Board, both of which may have areas that cross over with each other, yet the Children's Commissioner will have a remit over only one of those areas.