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Last updated: 10 March 2010
CAB 039-10
8 March 2010
Peter Hain and Paul Goggins, Ann McKechin and Wayne David; Carwyn Jones and Ieuan Wyn Jones; Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness; Alex Salmond and Fiona Hyslop; today announced further progress to strengthen devolution.
Ministers agree a revised and updated Memorandum of Understanding underpinning devolution.
The Ministers also agreed a protocol setting out how the four administrations will seek to firstly avoid disputes and where this proves impossible how they will be resolved. They agreed that the process should be fair, accessible, informed and responsive. They also committed to further work to improve the process.
The Ministers agreed that it would be in the spirit of this new approach to make public these decisions. The new protocol is being published today and is now in operation, subject to the usual process for ratification within each administration.
The meeting also held a useful discussion about meeting the challenges of the downturn through integrating employment and skills support and agreed that in recognition of the particular relevance and timeliness of this issue a follow-up discussion between the relevant Ministers of the four administrations should take place shortly.
This was the third meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee Domestic, between HM Government, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Executive.
The meeting took place in London.
It was chaired by the Secretary of State for Wales and participants were the following: from HM Government the Minister for Further Education, Skills, Apprenticeships and Consumer Affairs, the Minister of State for Northern Ireland, the Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Scotland and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales; from the Scottish Government the First Minister and Minister for External Affairs and Culture; from the Northern Ireland Executive the First Minister and deputy First Minister; and from the Welsh Assembly Government the First and Deputy First Ministers.
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