Wales Office

The Wales Office is a UK Government department. It replaced the Welsh Office, in 1998 the administration of Wales coordinated before the Government of Wales Act.

The powers of the facility, which was called "voice in Wales Wales ' voice in Westminster and Westminster 's" in the past, were with the Government of Wales Act 2006 mainly due to the exercise of the functions of the Secretary of State for Wales who are not on the National assembly for Wales were transferred set. The Wales Office is responsible for the design of the Welsh shares in the British budget

The Secretary of State for Wales is subordinate to the Ministry of Justice since 2007. Before 2007, it was subject to the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

Secretaries

Secretaries of State in the Wales Office have so far been the following:

Unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland Wales has no own Law Officers of the Crown; Wales and England maintain a common -law. The Attorney General for England and Wales advises the Government of the United Kingdom on the legal system of England and Wales. His deputy is the Solicitor General for England and Wales.

Future

Following the approval of the Welsh devolution referendum, the National Assembly for Wales received direct legislative powers. Some Welsh politicians, especially those of the party Plaid Cymru, then called for the abolition of the Wales Office. Dafydd Elis -Thomas, Chairman of the National Assembly for Wales commented on this by saying: "I think it would be very useful, the [ Wales Office ] to dismantle before the next National Assembly is sworn in, that would be the logical time when our new powers will come in full force. The relationship would be established between the governments and between parliaments. In other words, the topics of laws that are made in Westminster, but relate to Wales would be between the National Assembly and the Parliament in Westminster treated, and vice versa.! Lord Elis -Thomas was of Cheryl Gillian, the then Secretary of State for Wales accused of pursuing a " separatist agenda " .. you was supported by their predecessors from the ranks of the Labour Party, Peter Hain, who testified that Wales " remains a need representation in the environment of the cabinet in Westminster. "