, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I think 'acknowledged' is probably the best term. Let's see how far we can progress those discussions now. But an acknowledgement is the beginning of a conversation, at least.
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
What precisely that means, we're not entirely clear on yet, but I am hopeful that we will be able to make some progress on this, because we certainly don't want a position where Sewel is engaged and then the Senedd withholds consent and we're left with the…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
As the Counsel General has indicated, I raised it at the Interministerial Standing Committee, and I will be, hopefully, not making myself unpopular, but I will be raising it again until we make progress on that, at least on the memorandum of understanding. My…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
But, Chair, if I may, if there are particular examples when either the LCM is deficient in some way, or whether an explanatory memorandum hasn't reached a suitable level of detail and standard—. I would assume that officials would already be in touch with…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Yes. I think that was the point I was going to come back to, because we'd had some difficulties. I raised with Darren Jones, who was a one-time Cabinet Office Minister, matters of the lack of co-operation from UK Government Ministries with their counterparts…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I think that's a good question. Are we in a position to answer that today? I'm not sure. Of the six key points of Noble, we're working through each of those. I was pondering to myself whether the most appropriate thing for us to do would be, in 12 months, to…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
One of the things we've been discussing is how you effectively train policy development colleagues to be aware of the legislative context and how to engage most effectively with that. Much of this work is ongoing. I'm not suggesting that we are anywhere close…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
The simple answer is 'yes'; the slightly more complex answer is that, within the Cabinet Office, there's a director of strategy and part of that role is to horizon scan and to learn from the best international examples, as any responsible Government should…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
The digitally enabled Cabinet Office is allowing us to track progress on various policy issues at the moment. If you are an aficionado of the Welsh Government website, you may have seen some digital dashboards that have been published recently, which will…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Sophie might speak to that.
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
We're actually building on the Noble report, and there is a central legislation specialist pool that we are developing, and there are two things about that. One, it enhances capacity, but it also gives us the ability to deploy that capacity to areas where it…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I think there is a sound legislative principle that you need to consider the financial resource. As you well know from your time as a leader of a council, there are challenging financial circumstances that form the backdrop to everything we do. So, you have…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I think there's an enormous amount of work going into the development of the housing portfolio, of Bills and of policy in that area. The Member makes a very important point: that you can legislate as much as you like, but if you haven't got the financial…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Just briefly on that, I think one of the things we've asked colleagues to do is to identify all the elements of legislation that are to be implemented across a very broad range of areas. And then we need to have a conversation: 'Okay, in that area there is…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Could I come in for a second, Counsel General?
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
That is an excellent question, if I may say so, because, in a Parliament without a majority, it is inevitable that the Government has to consider whether it will be possible to try and get the agreement of the Senedd to new legislation. As we have heard…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I think, fundamentally, it comes back to the answer I gave some moments ago—and Sophie—around that careful planning, timetabling, working through what needs to be done when, and, when legislation is introduced, what level of scrutiny will be required over a…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I think, as Sophie's already mentioned, what you have here is a programme that we've been working on with colleagues. There are issues around legislative capacity, there are issues around scrutiny, and, therefore, we're making sure that we timeline that in a…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
And particularly when we're in the realm of consolidation and accessibility.
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I think there's always a balancing act in terms of developing a legislative programme, and what you've got here is a series of pieces of legislation. Some of those pieces of legislation have been a topic of some work already, and there have been discussions…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Shall I begin? What the First Minister has done in setting out the legislative programme is set out a first phase of legislation for this Government. We're anticipating that that first phase will last some 18 months, and we've been making—. Clearly, some of…
, Legislation Committee
General Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
I'm Dafydd Trystan Davies and I'm the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution. So, as a Government legal team, we are very pleased to be here, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductory evidence session with the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
The Cabinet, yes, indeed. Diolch yn fawr. Thank you, all, very much.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductory evidence session with the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Thank you very much.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductory evidence session with the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Well, no—[Laughter.] I am pretty confident on that one. With some of the other answers, there's much work ongoing, as we've illustrated. But, on that one, yes.
