Crown Estate (Wales) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 29 of 2024–25
This private member’s bill would transfer responsibility for the Crown Estate in Wales to the Welsh government.
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This House of Lords Library Briefing provides an overview of the requirements in the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 for the Government to publish reports on the progress made towards forming a Northern Ireland Executive, and other matters.
Reports Pursuant to Section 3(5) of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 (137 KB , PDF)
Section 3(5) of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 requires the UK Government to lay reports before Parliament at regular intervals. The Act stipulates that these reports must include information on:
As mandated by the Act, a first report on these topics was published on 4 September 2019, a second report was published on 9 October 2019, and the most recent report was published on 23 October 2019. Further reports on these topics must be published every 14 days until 18 December 2019 or until an Executive is formed, whichever is sooner. The Act also requires that each House be given the opportunity to debate the reports within five days of their publication.
Reports Pursuant to Section 3(5) of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 (137 KB , PDF)
This private member’s bill would transfer responsibility for the Crown Estate in Wales to the Welsh government.
The government has recently changed the entry requirements for certain non-EU goods being imported into Great Britain to enable them to move onwards under the Northern Ireland retail movement scheme. The House of Lords is due to consider a motion to annul the regulations that made these changes. This comes in the context of wider debates about the impact of the Windsor Framework on Northern Ireland.
In recent years, concerns have been raised about declining populations of Atlantic salmon, with work taking place to address this issue. This briefing provides a summary of this policy area. It has been prepared ahead of Lord Forsyth of Drumlean’s (Conservative) 12 September 2024 debate on what steps the government is taking to protect Atlantic salmon populations.