This page contains documents submitted to the National Assembly Administration by the Liberal Democrat Group in response to consultation papers. They contain the views of the Liberal Democrat Group and not the then Partnership Government and will often be at odds with what the Government finally decided to do. As such they form a useful insight into the process of negotiation and discussion within the Partnership as well as highlighting potential flashpoints. Most of the documents relate to my own portfolio of Local Government and Housing and briefly, Education.

6 September 2000 Standard Spending Assessment Formula for local Government

11 October 2000 Local Government Finance

5 February 2001 Date of next Local Council Elections

1 March 2001 Rees Commission on Student poverty

1 April 2001 Draft Conduct of Members (Model Code of Conduct) (Wales) Order 2001

11 October 2001 Commission on Electoral Arrangements for Local Government Submission by Peter Black AM

18 October 2001 The Commission on Electoral Arrangements for Local Government in Wales – submission by the Welsh Liberal Democrats

19 October 2001 The Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Group’s Response to “Improving Health in Wales – Structural Change in the NHS in Wales: A Consultation Document”

1 November 2001 Liberal Democrat response to Consultation paper on the implementation of Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms

15 January 2002 The Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Group’s Response to the Learning Disability Advisory Group’s Report to the National Assembly for Wales: “Fulfilling the Promises”

27 February 2003 The Welsh Liberal Democrat Submission to the Richard Commission on the Powers and Electoral Arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales