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Stephen Crabb to outline how Wales Bill will proceed Wales Bill needs significant changes, Stephen Crabb says
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Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb is to outline how he intends to proceed with a proposed package of changes to the way Welsh devolution works. Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has said he will make "significant changes" to his plans for further devolution after MPs called for a re-think.
Last year, Mr Crabb published the draft Wales Bill to give the Welsh government more powers. It follows claims that the draft Wales Bill was confusing, and would leave Welsh ministers with fewer powers.
But a report by the Welsh Affairs Select Committee, published on Sunday, said the process should be subject to a "pause". Mr Crabb said he would shorten the list of powers kept back by Westminster, and consider ways to better reflect Wales in the legal system.
Mr Crabb will set out the latest position on Monday morning. The bill will be delayed until summer to allow time for changes, he added.
The bill was supposed to settle constitutional wrangling by making clear which powers were to be devolved and which not. The new legislation is supposed to settle constitutional wrangling by making clear which powers were to be devolved and which not.
It includes areas such as energy, transport and elections.It includes areas such as energy, transport and elections.
'Pause needed'
But Welsh ministers have criticised the draft Wales Bill, saying some aspects of it would see them with fewer powers.But Welsh ministers have criticised the draft Wales Bill, saying some aspects of it would see them with fewer powers.
The committees' report said a proposed list of powers that are not devolved need a re-think, with Whitehall departments forced to give a clearer reason why some issues should not be handed over to Cardiff Bay. A report by the Welsh Affairs Select Committee, published on Sunday, called for a "pause" in the process.
It suggested Welsh ministers may need permission from London before passing some laws - described by First Minister Carwyn Jones as an "English veto" - were "too complex". The MPs said a proposed list of powers that are not devolved needed a re-think, with Whitehall departments forced to give a clearer reason why some issues should not be handed over to Cardiff Bay.
Introducing a 60-day deadline for UK ministers to raise any objections to planned Welsh laws could solve the problem, the report added. The report suggested Welsh ministers may need permission from London before passing some laws - described by First Minister Carwyn Jones as an "English veto" - were "too complex".
Responding to the report on Monday, Mr Crabb said: "It's become clear to me that there are some areas of the bill where we need to make significant and substantial changes."
He added it was "never the intention of this bill to increase constitutional red tape".
A working group will be set up to look at whether distinct arrangements are needed for Welsh law.
The final version of the bill - due in February - will not be published until May at the earliest.