ABSTRACT
In November 1973 the Constitutional Commission, set up by the Labour Government in 1966, made its report, with a variety of proposals for the establishment of new devices for the government of Scotland and Wales, and for the identification and presentation of interests peculiar to the main regions of England. In 1957 responsibility for Welsh affairs was transferred to the Minister of Housing and Local Government. Under the Minister of Local Government he appointed a Minister of State for Welsh Affairs, giving the first holder of the office a peerage, with the idea that he should spend most of his time in Wales, reasonably free of parliamentary duties in London. In the 1960s the uk Labour Government put pressure on the Northern Ireland Government to put an end to some practices which it considered repugnant to the spirit of the uk Constitution; in response to that pressure considerable movement towards change began.
