26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Offerynnau sy’n cynnwys materion i gyflwyno adroddiad arnynt i’r Senedd o dan Reol Sefydlog 21.2 neu 21.3 - trafodwyd yn flaenorol
Thank you, Kate. It sounds like another one for our ongoing look into this particular area of work. Colleagues, are you happy with those comments and observations for that report? We are. Thank you very much, Kate. Item 3.3, the last one in this section…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Offerynnau sy’n cynnwys materion i gyflwyno adroddiad arnynt i’r Senedd o dan Reol Sefydlog 21.2 neu 21.3 - trafodwyd yn flaenorol
Very good. Thank you, Kate. And very apposite in terms of our earlier discussion this afternoon with the Counsel General in front of us as well, about how we go about this, and then how we monitor them as well. That'll be something we return to. Are we happy…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Offerynnau sy’n cynnwys materion i gyflwyno adroddiad arnynt i’r Senedd o dan Reol Sefydlog 21.2 neu 21.3 - trafodwyd yn flaenorol
Croeso nôl. We're back now onto item 3.1 as we recommence this afternoon's session of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We're coming back into public session. We just had a fascinating and long session with the Counsel General and Minister…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Okay. Thank you very much. Counsel General and your team, we've covered a lot of ground there over that two hours. We will send you the transcript for checking for accuracy, but we thank you very much for your time and your attention this afternoon; we really…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
So, the UK Government review of the programme, have you got any idea of when that's going to be finalised and published?
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Thank you, Alun. A relatively straightforward question, I think, from me just at the end here. It's on common frameworks, which we touched on a moment ago. We don't have an annual report on final frameworks, clearly, at the moment, but the provisional…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Thank you very much, Sam. We've covered a lot of ground, and we're into the last six or seven minutes, but Alun's going to take us into another area here—let's see if we've got time.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Thank you, Adam. Thank you very much indeed. Sam, we're going to come to you, and we do definitely want to get into some depth here.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
We welcome that. Colleagues, we're going into our final half an hour now, so I'm going to hand over to you, Adam, there. I think we've got four sections that we might want to come to, but over to you, Adam.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, would you be open to suggestions coming forward at some point, when we turn our attention to this, about how we can increase the clarity of what's being corrected and when, and what's been overdue, because it's not, obviously, transparent at the moment…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
We'd love to be a fly on the wall with some of that engagement that you do. Listen, the other side of that, of course, is that when errors are made, we have two concerns as a committee. One is the clarity and transparency that comes back to this Senedd about…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
What sort of discussions do you have, because you do have this overview? Diplomatically speaking, do you rap the Minister over the knuckles and say, 'What's going on here with this one?'
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
But then we'd be out of part of our job.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
We agree.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Are you content with the numbers that are currently being identified, because they're not insignificant? Yes, some of them are ones that can be corrected by slips. Some of them are relatively minor and we'd expect them to be dealt with very rapidly and very…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Indeed. Okay. So, we, on this committee, eagerly await the latest riding out of Ben-Hur. Okay. Right. Let me turn just very briefly to statutory instruments. You have a quality assurance process in place to avoid errors happening. We're picking up significant…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Right.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Brilliant. Thank you, Alun. We'll move smartly ahead, but can you just tell us, are you still considering bringing the planning consolidation Bill forward this year, this autumn, this—?
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Yes, thank you. Alun—sorry.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Thank you.
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Or if Welsh Government accedes to it—
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
My point is this—and, in a sense, this is a 'yes' or 'no'—when the choice is made, for whatever reason, and the increasing number, as Alun has pointed out, for whatever reason, at a UK level—the democratic deficit, that deficit of scrutiny, of the ability of…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Yes. Sorry, just very, very briefly—sorry, I'm really abusing my position here—I would refer you to our annual reports, where we highlight where this has actually happened. We analyse this and we cite where we see this happening. But we can also look at the…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
But you would accept, Counsel General, in answer to Alun’s point, that the same characteristics that you’ve laid out about the growing democratic deficit, whenever we do England-and-Wales legislation, for a multiplicity of reasons, arise in that situation as…
26 Chwefror 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Sesiwn graffu gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
But we have come across examples.
