, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Now, with that, we come quite rapidly, actually, today, to our standard motion to move into private session. So, could I ask colleagues if, under Standing Order 17.42, they would agree to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting? And we do…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I absolutely agree, Alun. It's a really good point, and maybe we can delve a bit deeper into this in private session. But, I think we've already as a committee made approaches to Michael Gove in his capacity as the Minister for levelling up, et cetera, and to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Alun, thank you very much for putting that on the public record, and we will return to this in private, but your gratitude there to the people who arranged this, including from the UK Parliament as well—colleagues there. Thank you very much, and we look…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
And then we've got several papers to note under item 6. Under 6.1, we have correspondence between the Llywydd and Sir Oliver Heald regarding the first meeting of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly, at which the Senedd was represented by Sam Kurtz MS…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We'll move on to item No. 5, then, which gives us an update on the inter-institutional relations agreement first of all. Item 5.1 is correspondence from the Minister for Economy on free-port policy in Wales, and you'll notice with this we have a letter, a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
That's excellent. Thank you so much for that. That's really useful. It takes us further than our discussions last week as well. So, any comments from committee members, or are we happy to note that, because it does take us on quite a bit? That's brilliant…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
There we are. Brilliant. Are we happy, then, to note the report and the Welsh Government response? We are. Thank you very much. that takes us on to the second of these items that we've previously considered. Item 4.2 is SL(6)190, the Agricultural Wages…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
That takes us on, then, really speedily, to item No. 4. We have instruments here that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, but which we've previously considered. Now, we have two of these to look at. The first is item…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That's lovely. Thank you very much. So, with those reporting points, are we happy to agree the report? We are. Thank you very much.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, we will move ahead to item No. 3. Under item No. 3, we only have one item as well, and this is an instrument that raises issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. We have one made affirmative resolution instrument and it's…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, with that, we'll go straight to item No. 2. It may be a fairly short meeting in public this afternoon—we'll see how it'll go. Item No. 2 is instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, and we only have one. It is a made…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this hybrid meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. Just to remind you, the meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as normal. Apart from the procedural adaptations for…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everyone. Welcome to this meeting.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
It's why we were never overrun, Llyr. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
We are difficult in Wales. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
Thanks. That's a really optimistic scenario of, 'The right things are in place, it's going to happen, the competition is going to arrive.' Is it just, then, that potential innovators within this marketplace have just been slow to look west? Why is England so—?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
So, should this committee be taking an interest in the step forward that is, undoubtedly, that big house builders are considering putting the infrastructure in? But we've seen it in other areas, Chair, where there is then a monopolistic position, saying, 'You…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
Just one small follow-up. That's quite interesting that Persimmon's been receiving some praise for that. It's good to hear. Are there any worries over new house buyers being tied in?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
Okay, thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
Yes. And sorry, Delyth, if you were going to ask this, but I was very taken by that cryptic comment there, that BT's calculations may not have been appropriate or whatever. Sorry, I'm not putting words into your mouth. Can you expand on that a little bit?…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
So, you'd be able to share some of that information with us?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
I'm just wondering, Chair, whether you're able to share with the committee after the meeting today any geographic analysis of that rise in level of intensity of engagement, that proactive engagement that could show us where that's happening and how it relates…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Digital connectivity in Wales - evidence session 2
Lovely. Happy days.
