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For weeks now we've been asking the Conservatives at their weekly briefing, when Lord Wyn Roberts, who retired as the party's spokesman on Wales in the House of Lords, intends to submit his .

Granted it was David Cameron who asked him to write it (no surprises that he didn't think to give the job to the current spokesman on Wales,) and it's to the party leader that

Bang on time Lord Roberts.

Now given that Mr Cameron's plan is that "we get the devolution issue right and we settle it" and given his party may well be in a position to "settle it" after the next General Election, it would be very, very good to know what Lord Roberts has discovered while rifling among the party's grassroots. I've been on this kind of trail before and don't want to end up empty handed again.

A quick call to the Conservatives here to ask whether they've seen it yet and what are the chances of getting a copy?

The - sanguine - answer is that no, they haven't seen it yet, that as an interim report it may not be made public at all and in fact, they had no idea it had been submitted.

Lord Roberts apparently thinks the future lies in "a more co-operative spirit between Wales and Westminster".

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