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Housing powers hit new obstacle Housing powers hit new obstacle
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The assembly government's attempt to secure the powers to restrict tenants' right-to-buy their homes has hit another obstacle. The Welsh Assembly Government's attempt to secure the powers to restrict a right-to-buy for council tenants to buy their homes has hit another obstacle.
A Westminster debate on the housing LCO - Legislative Competence Order - has been postponed.A Westminster debate on the housing LCO - Legislative Competence Order - has been postponed.
BBC Wales' Welsh Affair Editor Vaughan Roderick said it appears that the LCO, will have to be re-written. It appears that the LCO will have to be rewritten.
He said it is "absolutely clear" that the LCO will not be passed by the House of Lords. The House of Lords had been due to consider the housing LCO after the Easter recess, but reports suggest that the LCO will not be passed by peers.
The Lords had been due to consider the housing LCO after the Easter recess. This is the latest in a series of setbacks for the order, which is the first stage in allowing the Welsh assembly to make its own laws.
This is the latest in a series of setbacks for the order, which is the first stage in allowing the Welsh Assembly to make its own laws.
'Scratched their heads''Scratched their heads'
Vaughan Roderick explained: "MPs were worried that [the assembly government] would abolish the right-to-buy so they shoved in a veto for the Welsh Secretary into the so-called LCO. The BBC's Welsh affairs editor Vaughan Roderick explained: "MPs were worried that the assembly government would abolish the right-to-buy so they shoved in a veto for the Welsh secretary into the so-called LCO.
"Then a joint committee of Parliament turned round and said that could be illegal, the assembly presiding officer agreed and yesterday a senior cross bench peer who is a Labour member, Lord Elystan-Morgan, also agreed. "Then a joint committee of Parliament turned round and said that could be illegal.
"The assembly presiding officer Dafydd Elis Thomas agreed and yesterday a senior cross bench peer who is a Labour member, Lord Elystan-Morgan, also agreed.
"So today we heard that a Commons debate that was due to take place on Monday on this order would be postponed while everyone scratched their heads and decided what on earth they could do.""So today we heard that a Commons debate that was due to take place on Monday on this order would be postponed while everyone scratched their heads and decided what on earth they could do."
He also said that the LCO is only the right for the assembly to make the law He also said that the LCO represented only the right for the assembly to make the law.
"Once the LCO is actually passed the assembly then has to write, discuss and debate the law themselves," he added."Once the LCO is actually passed the assembly then has to write, discuss and debate the law themselves," he added.
"So it does make it look as though any law, no matter how minor, to be passed by any assembly, would take the term of an entire assembly - four years.""So it does make it look as though any law, no matter how minor, to be passed by any assembly, would take the term of an entire assembly - four years."