APPENDIX 3
Letter to Mr Richard Shepherd, MP, from The Rt Hon
The Lord Irvine of Lairg, QC
I refer to the question that you asked me on 3 March when
I appeared before the Select Committee on Public Administration,
about Clause 79 of the government of Wales Bill, and I undertook
to write to you on this subject.
As I made plain to the Committee generally this is not an
area in which I have any ministerial responsibility. In the case
of Clause 79 of the Government of Wales Bill the responsibility
rests with Ron Davies, the Secretary of State for Wales. None-the-less
I would be happy to have written you but, having spoken to Ron
Davies, I think that it would be better for an explanation on
this subject to come from him. When you receive this I am sure
you will understand.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Ron Davies.
10 March 1998
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