{"id":75997,"date":"2016-11-14T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T11:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d665fb6ef03a82a5e555bafb4bbea59d"},"modified":"2016-11-14T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T11:06:03","slug":"press-release-secretary-of-state-for-wales-announces-new-deal-on-water-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75997","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Secretary of State for Wales announces new deal on water in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The UK Government has announced it will be devolving powers over water to the National Assembly and Welsh Government.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the UK Government can block Welsh Assembly legislation if it is likely to have a serious adverse impact on water supplies in England. It can also stop Welsh Ministers taking action for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>However, innovative reforms to the Wales Bill now going through the House of Lords will remove the UK Government\u2019s historic right to intervene on water-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>Householders in England and Wales won\u2019t see any change. What will change is that future issues involving Welsh water will now be administered by the Welsh Government.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"alun-cairns-secretary-of-state-for-wales-said\">Alun Cairns, Secretary of State for Wales, said:<\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The current powers allowing UK Ministers to intervene on water issues will be replaced by a statutory agreement between the UK and Welsh Governments.<\/p>\n<p>This recognises the increasingly mature relationship between the Governments of Westminster and Cardiff Bay. It is part of a wider package of measures being agreed under the Wales Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Water has been a challenging issue as anyone familiar with recent Welsh history knows. I\u2019m pleased we are now about to reach a definitive agreement that resolves past differences and provides clarity for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This approach lies at the heart of the Wales Bill which is designed to give Welsh people control over the daily decisions affecting their lives. It is only natural that a critical issue like water is part of this agreement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reforms to the Wales Bill will remove the UK Government&#8217;s historic right to intervene on water-related issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}