26 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. I'm just wondering, then, if I could just ask you, in terms of the financial implications of clause 11, if it is extended to devolved matters, is that something that you have a revised assessment in relation to?
26 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes, and I suppose it’s double jeopardy if you might face a situation where someone is facing, potentially, prosecution on the same facts, though with different elements and context. So, is that something that you're aware of as an issue?
26 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. I'm grateful to you. Just returning to the issue that the Chair also touched upon, with the parallels and overlaps between the provisions around misleading statements in the Senedd accountability Bill and these provisions—I accept, obviously, the…
26 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I'd be grateful for that, but I’m just wondering on a purely factual level: has this question of privilege been raised with UK Ministers either at official or inter-ministerial level already?
26 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you for that clarification. Notwithstanding that, and obviously the Government, through tabling the new UK Government amendment 40, has indicated, in the UK Government, what their intention is. Welsh Ministers are, even as currently formulated, one of…
26 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, just to return to the earlier question that the Chair gave you in relation to the LCM, is it your intention to submit the LCM based on the Bill as it currently is, where clause 11, therefore, only at the moment because that Report Stage amendment has not…
26 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I'd like to return, if I may, to clause 11 in the Bill, which relates to the new offence of misleading the public. And just to return to this question of the LCM, am I correct in thinking that the Government amendment that extends the ambit…
24 February 2026 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I regret—genuinely regret—that we are being asked to decide on this legislative consent motion without the fullest opportunity to scrutinise its implications for Wales. As we’ve heard, over 1,000 amendments have been tabled in the House of Lords, including…
24 February 2026 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: The Victims and Courts Bill
Plaid Cymru will be supporting this motion today, although we continue to believe that the best way of delivering the general objectives of this Bill in Wales would be by devolving justice and policing powers fully to Wales, as is supported by a wealth of…
23 February 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I was just going to say that I think it may be useful that Gareth does that work. And I think, possibly, we can return to this in our further discussions later. I think a general point I would make is that we've heard the proposers of the Bill saying that…
23 February 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Chair, I was wondering if I, through you, could ask our clerk to provide any advice they are able to share in relation to this, really, the very issue that Alun raises, why—. Because we do have some time available to delay, to some degree, the decision, which…
23 February 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Could I just come in there? Because I think it's obviously a very pertinent question that Alun raises, but there are at least a number of amendments that I'm aware of that relate more generally to the question of devolution itself. There are amendments, which…
23 February 2026 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I agree. Can I just say I entirely agree with that? I think it's unnecessary as well, given that we have some time available to at least give us a greater opportunity of seeing if there will be further progress, which would give us a better a context within…
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 11: Conduct of Senedd Cymru elections (Amendments 33, 34, 6, 7, 35, 36, 31, 37, 38, 39)
Yes.
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 11: Conduct of Senedd Cymru elections (Amendments 33, 34, 6, 7, 35, 36, 31, 37, 38, 39)
Yes.
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 11: Conduct of Senedd Cymru elections (Amendments 33, 34, 6, 7, 35, 36, 31, 37, 38, 39)
No.
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 11: Conduct of Senedd Cymru elections (Amendments 33, 34, 6, 7, 35, 36, 31, 37, 38, 39)
Yes.
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 11: Conduct of Senedd Cymru elections (Amendments 33, 34, 6, 7, 35, 36, 31, 37, 38, 39)
No.
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 11: Conduct of Senedd Cymru elections (Amendments 33, 34, 6, 7, 35, 36, 31, 37, 38, 39)
Thank you, and thank you, Counsel General, for dealing in detail with the amendments in this group. I think it's fair to say that, sadly, we haven't been able to find consensus on these particular amendments. There are areas of legitimate disagreement between…
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 11: Conduct of Senedd Cymru elections (Amendments 33, 34, 6, 7, 35, 36, 31, 37, 38, 39)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. All the amendments in this group relate to section 22 of the Bill currently, which places a duty on Welsh Ministers to make regulations dealing with false or misleading statements of fact made for the purpose of affecting the return of a…
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 7: Standards of Conduct Committee (Amendments 25, 26, 46, 47, 32, 5, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 29, 30, 8)
No, I'd like to withdraw.
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 7: Standards of Conduct Committee (Amendments 25, 26, 46, 47, 32, 5, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 29, 30, 8)
It's not a unique proposal. It's analogous, really, to structures that other parliaments have put in place for exactly the same reasons. There are certain categories of cases that are not appropriate, in order to maintain public trust, for example, in order…
12 February 2026 , Member Accountability Bill Committee
Group 7: Standards of Conduct Committee (Amendments 25, 26, 46, 47, 32, 5, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 29, 30, 8)
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Amendment 32 seeks to build upon the principles behind the provision already in the Bill in relation to the creation of lay members, which, as Sam Rowlands has already referred to, is intended to provide the public with a greater guarantee…
4 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you very much, Chair.
4 February 2026 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you. Could I just turn to one body that is not located there, as far as I understand it, which is the Equality and Human Rights Commission. In November last year, they wrote to you as a Government about the failure to comply with equality law as far as…
