MORE details about progressing towards a referendum on a full law-making Assembly will be revealed today, First Minister Carwyn Jones said as he prepared to face AMs in the chamber.

Mr Jones will this afternoon hold his first weekly question time in the Senedd since taking over from Rhodri Morgan.

The Welsh Labour leader will also host his first regular media briefing with Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones.

One of the first tasks facing their coalition is setting out plans for a referendum on primary law-making powers on or before the 2011 Assembly election.

Mr Jones said the date of an Assembly debate on the subject would be announced later.

"What we will be looking to do is to first of all announce a date for a debate in the Assembly on how we move things forward," Mr Jones told the BBC's Good Morning Wales programme.

"In order to keep all options open in terms of a date, it's right to say there has to be a vote over the course of the next few weeks and that's what's planned.

"There are a number of forms of words being looked at at the moment for the motion itself.

"What is absolutely clear is that a motion will have to take things forward and also to start the process of moving towards a referendum.

"It wouldn't be enough, of course, to have a motion that expressed a particular view and then nothing happened as a result of it."

The findings of a major consultation into devolution – ordered by the Assembly Government as part of its One Wales coalition deal – last year said a referendum was winnable, but the outcome could not be guaranteed.

Labour has said it will not consult party members and politicians on a referendum until after the general election in the spring.

Mr Jones added: "As I said, we are looking at a number of options at the moment on how the process might be moved forward.

"I think it's right to say that all parties want to concentrate on the general election when it comes in the spring, whenever the date is, but, of course, in the meantime, we will have to show, after having a vote in the Assembly, that we've moved things forward in terms of devolution."

He gave his full support to Gordon Brown as Labour's leader, saying plotting against the Prime Minister in the run-up to an election was "not wise".

And he said the Assembly Government was doing what it could to ease the pressure on council salt stocks as local authorities struggle to keep roads open during the big freeze.

Mr Jones said the Government had its own supply of salt, used to grit motorways, and councils would be offered help whenever possible.