Oral Answers to Questions

Michael Fabricant Excerpts

Wednesday 20th November 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Jones]

I make no apologies for ensuring that the proposal was properly scrutinised. The package we announced is good for Wales and I am glad that it was welcomed by the Welsh Government, who will have new borrowing powers. The borrowing limit that will apply to those powers will be commensurate with the Welsh Government’s access to independent streams of funding to repay the borrowing they incur. The details will be placed on the face of the draft Bill when it is published.

[Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con)]

If the National Assembly for Wales is going to have borrowing powers, and if it is going to smell like a Parliament and look like a Parliament, is it not time that it became the National Parliament of Wales?

[Mr Jones]

I am not entirely sure how a Parliament smells.