§ Mr. MaudeTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what responsibilities which his Department had prior to the Comprehensive Spending Review are to be(a) discontinued by his Department, (b) transferred to another department, (c) transferred to an executive agency and (d) added to his Department over the period 1998–99 to 2001–02. [68396]
§ Mr. MichaelNo responsibilities will be discontinued. The great majority of functions administered by my Department, and some responsibilities which currently fall to other departments, will be transferred to the National Assembly for Wales later this year. These will be as set out in the Transfer of Functions Order which I published for consultation last November, and which I hope to lay before Parliament shortly. In addition, responsibility for section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966, as it applies to Wales, will be transferred to my Department by the Home Office from April 1999.