More disinformation from True Wales
True Wales claim that “even more taxpayers’ money will have to be spent on the salaries of lawyers and civil servants” following a move from Part 3 to Part 4 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.
The Convention’s report exposes this as being inaccurate.
It says that “the likely impact on the National Assembly for Wales of a move to Part 4 would be, broadly speaking, financially neutral in terms of current budget allocations. In Whitehall, there should be a small, but unquantifiable, release of capacity if consideration of LCOs were no longer needed.”
“Should the National Assembly for Wales move to Part 4, the saving for the Welsh Assembly Government of £1.98 million from not having to go through the processes of acquiring powers through LCOs and Framework Powers in UK Bills would likely be reallocated to the formulation of policy and drafting of Assembly Bills”.
In other words, it’s clear that moving to a proper parliament for Wales won’t cost more, and that resources that are currently tied up in the inefficient and wasteful LCO process would be better spent on making laws more quickly and more clearly, and in a more joined-up way.
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