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Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
The Bill marks the start of this Welsh Government’s ambitious plans for the consolidation of Welsh law, and it is indeed an endeavour that should be welcomed by this Senedd. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
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Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
Llywydd, we recognise the importance of the Bill as the first of its kind for the Senedd and for Welsh law, not least because of the practical impact that it will have in making Welsh law available in both official languages, in improving accessibility to the…
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Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
As the responsible committee for considering consolidation Bills, we were tasked with determining whether the Bill should proceed through the Senedd as a consolidation Bill. Our aim was to satisfy ourselves: that the scope of the consolidation is appropriate…
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Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate as we, the Senedd, undertake our first consideration of a Welsh consolidation Bill, proposed by the Welsh Government, on Welsh historic environment law.
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Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. Hello, again. [Laughter.] Neil Diamond, I think—'Hello Again'.
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Our report notes the Welsh Government’s view that the Bill makes relevant provision in relation to Wales as a result of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, or UKIMA, as I will now refer to it, and specifically that its requirements mean that the…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. We laid our report on this LCM immediately after our meeting yesterday afternoon. The Minister will know we had very little time to consider the memorandum, given that it was laid on 8 December 2022, and we were asked to report by 16…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Shark Fins Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Thank you, again. We laid our report on the Welsh Government's memorandum in respect of the Shark Fins Bill this morning and we came to two conclusions within our report. We made two recommendations to the Welsh Government. We agreed…
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The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
These regulations amend, as the Minister was saying, the 2013 regulations to uprate certain figures used to calculate an applicant’s entitlement to a reduction under a council tax reduction scheme. Our report on these regulations contained, as the Minister…
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The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
Thank you, once again, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you, Minister, also. We considered these regulations on 9 January, and our report has been laid to inform Members in this afternoon’s debate.
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Legislative Consent Motion on the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
So, with your invitation, Dirprwy Lywydd, I will speak in the two other debates on legislative consent motions for two other Bills this afternoon, at risk of boring everybody here within the Siambr, but such is the extent to which the UK Government is…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
We’re very busy.
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Legislative Consent Motion on the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
Llywydd, for those keeping count, our report on memorandum No. 3 was our fortieth report on legislative consent memoranda in this sixth Senedd.
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Legislative Consent Motion on the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. We have produced two reports covering the three consent memoranda that have been laid by the Minister on this Bill—the first was completed last October, and the second was laid yesterday afternoon. Neither of our reports…
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Statement by the Minister for Economy: Economic Priorities and UK Government Relations
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, in welcoming the statement today and its very clear focus on social value and social partnership in the economy, can I ask whether Government Ministers will continue to work with those of us—and I draw the attention of the…
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Questions to the First Minister
I thank Sam for bringing this question forward, because the potential here in the Celtic sea is, of course, for west Wales, and for the whole of the south Wales seaboard as well, in terms of manufacturing, supply chain, and so on. And we have to have that…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Item 10. We now move to the motion to move into private under Standing Order 17.42, so we can continue with our deliberations in private. Are we happy to do so? We are. I'll just ask our clerks to move us into private session.
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Papers to note
Absolutely, yes. Thank you. I know it's something that all colleagues here have been pushing hard on. So, thank you for that, and we do welcome that.
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Papers to note
And finally, then, we have papers to note, and we have several here. First of all—and shout at me as per normal if there's anything you want to raise on these—is item 9.1, correspondence from the Business Committee to the Local Government and Housing…
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Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement
Item 8. We have one item here under item 8, which is notifications of correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. If I could ask if you're happy to note the letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, which…
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Common frameworks
That takes us on, then, to item 7 on common frameworks. Under 7.1, we have correspondence from the Minister for Climate Change to the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee in relation to the published framework outline agreement and…
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Written Statements under Standing Order 30C
Nothing, okay. Any comments or questions, colleagues? No, we're okay on that. Okay, so we note that.
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Written Statements under Standing Order 30C
We turn to item 6, written statements under Standing Order 30C. There's only one to note here today, under 6.1, written statement 30C(6)022, the Plant Health and Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022. We have several papers there…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
That's good; okay. Any comments on this, colleagues? No, we're happy with that. Thank you very much.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
We go on to item 5, then, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we have previously considered. We have one item here, it's item 5.1, SL(6)299, the Seed (Equivalence) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations…
