The Government of Wales Act, which will establish a National Assembly for Wales.
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While all four parliaments in the UK, The National Assembly for Wales, Stormont, Holyrood and the House of Commons, rang in unison.
Mr Fabricant, who occasionally mentions his Welsh roots, wanted to know if the UK government would consider re-naming the National Assembly for Wales.
Among the protesters, onshore at least, two Welsh MPs (both Labour) and three Members of the National Assembly for Wales (one Plaid Cymru, two Conservatives).
The National Assembly for Wales - which has opposed WPD's bid all along over job relocation fears - said it was now prepared for "constructive talks".
The original error was down to confusion at the Wales Office over the location of its Cardiff office, a stone's throw from the National Assembly for Wales.
The National Assembly for Wales has already agreed to establish the post but ministers have come under fire for failing to introduce a similar office in England.
Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales, is optimistic about making real inroads into Labour's support, after their success in the elections for the National Assembly for Wales.
It means confirmation that the National Assembly for Wales will move from four to five-year fixed terms, to reduce the chance of assembly elections coinciding with parliamentary elections.
Welsh Secretary David Jones has rejected calls for the National Assembly for Wales to have more members - and suggested the existing 60 AMs should work longer hours instead.
We are therefore proceeding with the order which has been approved in the National Assembly for Wales and which we believe is legal under the Government of Wales Act 2006.
The bill becomes the third piece of primary legislature that the assembly has passed, following the Local Government Byelaws (Wales) Bill and the National Assembly for Wales (Official Languages) Act 2012.
If they do include visits to Caspian Point, then it appears the secretary of state for Wales has yet to visit on official business either his own office or the National Assembly for Wales.
For once, Labour MPs joined them in the division lobbies, even though Labour MPs have been cooler about the National Assembly for Wales acquiring income tax powers than their counterparts in the assembly have.
But politicians in Cardiff Bay were today focused on a different kind of deficit - the gap between political activity in the National Assembly for Wales and media coverage of it - or the lack of it.
Reflecting on the year in politics, he said 2012 had been the year in which the National Assembly for Wales had started using new law-making powers - "the latest step on our constitutional journey".
It had to compete with the inaugural Political Book Awards and a football match or two, but MPs spent 30 minutes last night debating how members of the National Assembly for Wales are elected.
They are not proposing that English councils be given the same powers as the Scottish Parliament to potentially vary the rate of income tax - powers that could also be extended to the National Assembly for Wales under the Silk Commission proposals.
The Wales Ecological Footprint project is made up of a wide range of partners including WWF Cymru, Cardiff Council, Gwynedd Council, Cardiff University, Bangor University, the Stockholm Environment Institute (York), the National Assembly for Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales and the Environment Agency Wales.
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Junior minister Stephen Crabb explained in a written parliamentary answer that as the Wales office is not an employer in its own right it has to honour the terms and conditions of its staff depending on their home departments (such as the National Assembly for Wales).
Swansea also offered another debut - last year's cancellation meant this was the first full Welsh conference Andrew RT Davies had spoken to since assuming leadership of the Tory group in the National Assembly for Wales. (He did speak to a rally in St Asaph that filled the gap before last year's local elections).
With just four days left until polling stations open for the National Assembly elections in Wales, the party leaders were either resting or having a fun day out.
In their evidence to Silk, the Lib Dems say they are offering proposals to "bolster the National Assembly, moving closer towards a proper parliament for Wales".
Plaid finance spokesman Ieuan Wyn Jones urged AMs to endorse "a message coming from this National Assembly that we want to protect the EU budget because we are standing up for the people of Wales".
On Thursday, the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee (at 10am) pursues its inquiry into the need (or otherwise) for a Constitutional Convention for the UK, with evidence from Paul Silk, the chair of the Commission on Devolution in Wales, which recently produced new recommendations on taxation and spending powers for the Welsh National Assembly.
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