It has been established by tradition over a hundred years ; and although in common with other British anthems, it has not been established as such by law, it has been used in the context of a national anthem at official governmental ceremonies including the opening of the Welsh Assembly and at receptions of the British monarchy.

In November 2005, he was invited to the Welsh Assembly as a guest speaker by Tory Welsh assembly member William Graham.

However he shocked the Assembly members and Welsh public when he called for the legalization of heroin: " I have never had heroin but since I moved to London from North Wales in ' 67 I have mixed with junkies on a casual and almost daily basis ," he said.

* 1999 – First elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly held.

* Measure of the National Assembly for Wales, a law specific to Wales passed by the Welsh Assembly between 2007 and 2011

Such systems, or variations of them, are used in parts of the United Kingdom ( the Greater London Authority, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly ), Germany, Lesotho, Mexico, Bolivia and New Zealand.

While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.

* Welsh Assembly

Executive power in the United Kingdom is exercised by the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, via Her Majesty's Government and the devolved national authorities-the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Executive.

The Welsh Government and the National Assembly for Wales have more limited powers than those devolved to Scotland, although following the passing of the Government of Wales Act 2006 and the Welsh devolution referendum, 2011, the Assembly can now legislate in some areas through an Act of the National Assembly for Wales.

Following the 2011 election, Welsh Labour held exactly half of the seats in the Assembly, falling just short of an overall majority.

The Senedd-The Welsh Assembly Building

The Siambr-The debating chamber of the Welsh Assembly

* The Additional Member System is used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales ( Welsh Assembly ) and London Assembly.

Plaid has the third-largest number of seats in the National Assembly for Wales, after Welsh Labour and the Welsh Conservative & Unionist Party, and participated with the former in the coalition agreement in the Assembly before the 2011 election.

In January 2012, the Welsh Government announced the repeal the Abergavenny Improvement Acts of 1854 to 1871 which obliged the holding of a livestock market within the boundaries of Abergavenny town ; that repeal being effective from 26 March 2012.

A Welsh Labour Government was subsequently formed headed by Carwyn Jones.

The Welsh Assembly was set up in 1999 ( as a consequence of the Government of Wales Act 1998 ) and possesses the power to determine how the government budget for Wales is spent and administered.

Responding on the calls of Welsh devolution, in 1964 the Labour Government gave effect to these proposals establishing the unelected Welsh Office () and Secretary of State for Wales.

In Great Britain, Scottish and Welsh nationalism also grew as political forces, while the decimalisation of British coinage, begun under the previous Labour Government, was completed eight months after Heath came to power.

* Welsh Government Sponsored Bodies

Under the Government of Wales Act 2006, the Counsel General is the chief legal adviser to the Welsh Assembly Government.

The Welsh Assembly Government issued detailed guidance to governing bodies on uniform and appearance policies that begins by making explicit, " There is no education legislation specifically covering the wearing of school uniform or other aspects of appearance such as hair color and style, and the wearing of jewellery and makeup.

* Welsh Statutory Instruments made by the Welsh Government ( formerly by the National Assembly )

Her Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as Her Majesty's Civil Service or the Home Civil Service, is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, which is composed of a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as well as three devolved administrations: the Welsh Assembly Government, the Scottish Executive and the Northern Ireland Executive.

* Henry Brooke: Minister of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

* Henry Brooke: Minister of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

* Henry Brooke: Minister of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

* Charles Hill: Minister of Housing and Local Government and Welsh Affairs

* Welsh fiddling ( Welsh Ffidil ; see Ar Log ), a recently revived tradition.

The Zionist movement revived Hebrew, and began immigration to Eretz Yisrael, and Welsh and Irish tongues also experienced a poetic revival.

After World War II, the BBC Welsh Orchestra was revived as a 31-member ensemble, with Mansel Thomas as its first principal conductor.

The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations are keen on the idea, but the English association are less enthusiastic, claiming that they agree in principle, but that fixture congestion makes a revived tournament impractical.

The Welsh Indian legend was revived in the 1840s and 1850s ; this time the Zunis, Hopis, and Navajo were claimed to be of Welsh descent, by George Ruxton ( Hopis, 1846 ), P. G. S. Ten Broeck ( Zunis, 1854 ), and Abbé Emmanuel Domenach ( Zunis, 1860 ), among others.

The roots revival, applied to Celtic music, has brought much inter-Celtic cross-fertilisation, as, for instance, the revival by Welsh musicians of the use of the mediaeval Welsh bagpipe under the influence of the Breton binioù, Irish uillean pipes and famous Scottish pipes, or the Scots have revived the bodhran from Irish influence.

Regardless of the accuracy of its linguistic origins and accuracy of naming, etc., the modern Golowan festival's Penglaz takes its appearance from the later quotations descriptions and resembles strongly the Mari Lwyd of Welsh tradition and was first introduced in 1992 at the second revived Golowan festival by Merv Davey Hon piper of Gorseth Kernow.

After the railway was revived by L. T. C. Rolt and others it prospered and became a major Welsh tourist attraction and flagship to the infant Heritage railway movement.

This site is recognised by modern convention as the centre of London for the purpose of indicating distances by road in favour of other previous measurement points ( such as St Paul's Cathedral which remains as the root of the English and Welsh part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme ).

Towards the end of 1945 Tudor proposed that an international choral festival be added to the 1947 Welsh National Eisteddfod, however the Council of the National Eisteddfod felt that as all their effort were involved in rebuilding their own organisation they could not take on such a scheme.

It has an alphabetised title scheme covering all areas of law, drawing on authorities including Acts of the United Kingdom, Measures of the Welsh Assembly, UK case law and European law.

The scheme was officially scrapped in 2008 after a Welsh Assembly committee decided to abandon the proposals.

As President of the South Wales Liberal Federation from 1894-7, Thomas believed that the southern counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, which together contained over half the Welsh population, would suffer under the proposed scheme for a single national federation.

The most recent scheme, costing £ 54 million, will see the clearance of 11 streets near Princes Park, nicknamed the " Welsh Streets " due to the streets being built and lived in by the Welsh workers who built a large percentage of buildings around Liverpool city in the 19th century and around the turn of the 20th century.

* Welsh Assembly Government: A465 dualling scheme

However, whereas the United Kingdom government chose to replace means-tested maintenance grants for living expenses whilst at university with a student loan scheme, the Welsh Assembly re-introduced these for Welsh students either studying in Wales or anywhere else in the United Kingdom.

The Tywyn coastal defence scheme, a £ 7. 6m civil engineering project, to provide a new rock breakwater above the low-tide level, rock groynes, and rock revetment to protect 80 sea-front properties was officially unveiled by Jane Davidson, the Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing in the Welsh Assembly Government, on 24 March 2011.

One scheme, aimed at distributing Welsh coal from the port as far inland as Calstock on the River Tamar, gained parliamentary approval for construction in 1774, but financial problems frustrated the proposal.

If the Board's investigations indicate that an organisation has broken its own Welsh language scheme, it could produce recommendations to the organisation and, ultimately, transfer the matter to the Minister for Heritage at the Welsh Assembly Government.

Since launching the private sector Welsh language policy in November 2008, over 100 businesses produced a policy, and 150 companies signed up to the Board's " Investing in Welsh ' scheme ", indicating support for the language.

One aim was of the scheme was the creation of a new home for the Welsh National Opera company, which was then based in the New Theatre in Cardiff.

* 8 November – The Welsh Assembly Government launches its " free swimming for over-60s " pilot scheme.

The River Dee regulation scheme is a system of flow balancing and quality management along the River Dee managed by a consortium of the three largest water companies licensed to take water from the river, United Utilities, Welsh Water and Dee Valley Water ; together with the regulator, the Environment Agency Wales.

Originally the local LEA planned to refurbish the original building on the North side of the road, but after a fire which destroyed the wooden beams supporting the original Welsh Slate roof, this building was demolished and materials reclaimed for an affordable housing scheme on the site.

Recently several four year graduate entry schemes have been introduced in some English and Welsh medical schools which cover a similar range and depth of knowledge to the undergraduate scheme but at a more intensive pace.

These areas are classified as Tier 3 ( see tab England Tier 3 ),-this grant scheme is known as Enterprise Grant Scheme ( EGS ) for English companies, Assembly Investment Grant ( AIG ) for Welsh companies and Invest for Growth Scheme ( IFG ) for Scottish companies.

In Wales, both RSA and the new AIG, small grant scheme, are administered by the Welsh Assembly Government from offices in Cardiff, Swansea for South Wales, and Colwyn Bay for North Wales areas.

The Welsh Assembly Government confirmed in February 2007 that it is grant funding, in conjunction with European Union Objective 1 assistance, a scheme to upgrade the line north of Abercynon, including reinstatement of 2 miles of double track, to enable the introduction of a half hourly train service, the revenue costs of which the Welsh Assembly Government will also meet.