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On 7 October, the Home Office tabled an amendment to the Anti\-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill, to replace one of the current exceptions to the National Assembly for Wales’ legislative competence with a new exception.


The exception in question is that relating to “Anti\-social behaviour orders”, which is listed under paragraph 12 of Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006\.


The Home Office amendment would replace this with the following exception:  

“Orders to protect people from behaviour that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress”.


The Home Office contend that this is a consequential amendment, which merely updates the exception in recognition of the abolition of the current anti\-social behaviour regime.


I disagree with the Home Office.  The Minister for Local Government and Government Business and I have made our views clear to both Home Office Ministers and the Secretary of State for Wales.  The Minister for Local Government and Government Business’ letter of today’s date to the Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice, and my letter to the Secretary of State for Wales, are attached for Members’ information.


In my view, the Home Office’s replacement exception would have a significant impact on the National Assembly’s legislative competence.   The effect of the current exception is that anti\-social behaviour orders (ASBOs), under the current Crime and Disorder Act 1998 regime, are not within the Assembly’s legislative competence.  


The effect of the proposed replacement exception is that all or any orders to protect people from behaviour that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress would fall outside the Assembly’s legislative competence.  This represents a restriction on the Assembly’s powers, as it would prevent it from legislating substantively about any sort of order to protect people from behaviour that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, even in devolved contexts such as the health service, schools or housing.


The UK Government considers that this amendment to Schedule 7 to the Government of Wales Act can be made without a legislative consent motion in the Assembly.  I disagree.  The amendment would reduce the Assembly’s legislative competence, and it should not be taken forward without the Assembly’s agreement.  The Minister for Local Government and Government Business will be laying a legislative consent memorandum and motion on this issue, and the Welsh Government will not be supporting the motion.





### Documents


* #### Letter from the First Minister ,
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* #### Letter from the Minister for Local Government and Government Business ,
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Translation:


 
Ar 7 Hydref, cyflwynodd y Swyddfa Gartref welliant i’r Bil Ymddygiad Gwrthgymdeithasol, Trosedd a Phlismona, i ddisodli un o’r eithriadau presennol i gymhwysedd deddfwriaethol Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru gydag eithriad newydd.


Yr eithriad o dan sylw yw’r eithriad sy’n ymwneud â  “Gorchmynion Ymddygiad Gwrthgymdeithasol”, a restrir o dan baragraff 12 o Atodlen 7 i Ddeddf Llywodraeth Cymru 2006\.


Byddai gwelliant y Swyddfa Gartref yn disodli hyn â’r eithriad canlynol:  

“Orders to protect people from behaviour that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress”.


Mae’r Swyddfa Gartref yn haeru mai gwelliant canlyniadol yw hwn, ac mai unig swyddogaeth y gwelliant yw diweddaru’r eithriad er mwyn cydnabod bod y drefn ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol presennol wedi cael ei diddymu.


Rwyf yn anghytuno â’r Swyddfa Gartref.  Mae’r Gweinidog Llywodraeth Leol a Busnes y Llywodraeth a minnau wedi gwneud ein barn yn glir i Weinidogion y Swyddfa Gartref ac i Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru.  Amgaeir llythyr y Gweinidog Llywodraeth Leol a Busnes y Llywodraeth dyddiedig heddiw at y Gweinidog Gwladol dros Blismona a Chyfiawnder Troseddol, a’m llythyr innau at Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru, er gwybodaeth yr Aelodau.


Yn fy marn i, byddai eithriad disodli’r Swyddfa Gartref yn cael effaith sylweddol ar gymhwysedd deddfwriaethol y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol.   Effaith yr eithriad presennol yw nad yw gorchmynion ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol (ASBOs), o dan drefn bresennol Deddf Trosedd ac Anhrefn 1998, o fewn cymhwysedd deddfwriaethol y Cynulliad.  


Effaith yr eithriad disodli arfaethedig yw y byddai pob gorchymyn neu unrhyw orchymyn i  amddiffyn pobl rhag ymddygiad sy’n achosi neu sy’n debygol o achosi aflonyddwch, braw neu drallod yn dod  y tu allan i gymhwysedd deddfwriaethol y Cynulliad.  Mae hyn yn gosod cyfyngiad ar bwerau’r Cynulliad, gan y byddai’n ei rwystro rhag deddfu’n sylweddol ynghylch unrhyw fath o orchymyn i amddiffyn pobl rhag ymddygiad sy’n achosi neu sy’n debygol o achosi aflonyddwch, braw neu drallod, hyd yn oed mewn cyd\-destunau datganoledig megis y gwasanaeth iechyd, ysgolion neu dai.


Mae Llywodraeth y DU o’r farn y gellir gwneud y gwelliant hwn i Atodlen 7 i Ddeddf Llywodraeth Cymru heb gynnig cydsyniad deddfwriaethol yn y Cynulliad. Rwyf yn anghytuno. Byddai’r gwelliant yn lleihau cymhwysedd deddfwriaethol y Cynulliad, ac ni ddylid bwrw ymlaen ag ef heb gytundeb y Cynulliad.  Bydd y Gweinidog Llywodraeth Leol a Busnes y Llywodraeth yn gosod memorandum a chynnig cydsyniad deddfwriaethol ar y mater hwn, ac ni fydd Llywodraeth Cymru’n cefnogi’r cynnig.





### Dogfennau


* #### Letter from the First Minister ,
 Saesneg yn unig,
 math o ffeil: pdf, maint ffeil: 135 KB


Saesneg yn unig

135 KB
* #### Letter from the Minister for Local Government and Government Business ,
 Saesneg yn unig,
 math o ffeil: pdf, maint ffeil: 72 KB


Saesneg yn unig

72 KB