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Note of a meeting between Paul Silk and Lord Rowe-Beddoe on 10 July 2013 where Lord Rowe-Beddoe presented his opinions on the devolved settlement and the benefits of a properly structured federal system for transparency and economic development.

Note of a meeting between Paul Silk and Lord Barry Jones where Lord Jones gave his observations and opinions on the desirability of devolving specific additional responsibilities to the National Assembly for Wales and how cross border issues would be managed.

Note of an Oral Evidence Session with Kay Jenkins of the Electoral Commission held on 12 April 2013 at the Commission office in Cardiff. The issue of devolving responsibility for elections and the electoral franchise the the National Assembly for Wales was discussed.

Note of an Oral Evidence Session with Sir Robert Rogers, clerk of the House of Commons and Paul Evans, Principal Clerk of the table Office, held on 12 April 2013 at the Commission Office in Cardiff. Issues discussed include the Assembly's capacity to legislate, devolution of powers over elections, Legislative Consent Motions and relations between the Assembly and UK Parliament.

Note of a meeting with Sir Bob Kerslake, Head of the Civil Service, held on 11 July 2013 on the working of the Civil Service in relation to devolution and the Welsh Government was discussed.

Note of a Commission meeting with Dickon Howell, Head of Marine Licensing at the Marine and Maritime Organisation on 11 July 2013. where the relationship between the MMO and the Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales was discussed.

A note of the Expert Seminar on Natural Resources held on 26 June 2013 at the Bridge Innovation Centre, Pembroke Dock with evidence from Dr Stevie Upton, Honorary Research Associate, Wales Governance Centre. Dr Roisin Willmott, National Director, RTPI Cymru, Llywelyn Rhys, Deputy Director, RenewableUK Cymru, Ted Sangster, Pembrokeshire Business Initiative andAlec Don, Chief Executive, Port of Milford Haven.

Note of an evidence session comparing conferred and reserved powers models of devolution held on 25 July 2013 at the Commission office in Cardiff. Evidence was taken from Ann Sherlock, Lecturer, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University and Professor Daniel Wincott, Professor of Law, Cardif University and co-chair of the Wales Governance Centre.

Note of an oral evidence session on the justice system held on 25 July 2013 with evidence from Professor Rod Morgan, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, the University Police Science Institute, University of Cardiff and the University of Sussex; and former chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (2004-7), Juliet Lyon CBE, the director of the Prison Reform Trust, Sarah Dew, Wales representative on the Board of Trustees of the Magistrates' Association, and Gavin McLeod, Secretary of the Welsh Committee of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council (WCAJTC).

Minutes of the twenty-third meeting of the Commission held on 25/26 July 2013.

Minutes of the twenty-second meeting of the Commissions held on 11 July 2013.

Minutes of the Commission's meeting held on 12 April 2013.

Note of a Commission meeting with Secretary of State for Wales held on 11 July 2013 where a number of the Commission's recommendations were discussed.

Note of oral evidence given by Sir Roderick Evans, Former High Court Judge and Presiding Judge of Wales on 24 July 2013. Matters discussed include establishing a legal jurisdiction for Wales, Welsh the courts, the devolution of policing, tribunals, probation and prisons and a reserved verses conferred powers model of devolution.

Note of a Commission meeting with Richard Beaver, Director of Strategy, Ofwat, held on 11 July 2013 to discuss Offwat's relationship with the Welsh Government, possibilities to trade water between Wales and England and the return of responsibility for sewerage to Westminster in 2006.

Note of a meeting with Ciaran Martin, Director of the Constitution Group at the Cabinet Office held on 1 July 2013. The relationship between the Welsh and UK Governments and how this compared to the relations with the other devolved governments, the merits of the conferred versus reserved powers model of devolution and the UK Government's approach to constitutional reform were discussed.

Note of a meeting between the Commissioners and Chris Flatt, Deputy Director, Constitution and Communications, Scotland Office
held on 11 July 2013. Much of the note relate to the relationship between the Scotland Office and Scottish Government, especially over the legality of Scottish Acts, although the relationship between the Wales and Scotland Office, the lack of interest in a single Secretary of State for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and the exchange of staff were also discussed.

Note of the Models of Devolution Expert Evidence Seminar held at Aberystwyth University on 25 June 2013 prepared by the Commission Secretariat discussion the merits of a reserved and conferred powers model of devolution.

A draft of a speech or article exploring whether taxation should be devolved to Wales and how the Welsh devolution settlement has developed.

A draft of a letter sent by Mark parkinson on behalf of the Commission to Glynne jones (UK Government) and Carys Evans (Welsh Government) regarding the process for transferring budgets from the UK Government to the Welsh Government in the event that additional responsibilities are devolved and asking for specific information in respect of potentially devolving functions of DCMS, DfT, Home Office, DWP and the Ministry of Justice.