, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. Thank you very much, Gareth. Would we be expecting a response from Ministers on that, and what would our next step be then?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We move on to item 3, instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 and 21.3. We've got a few to look at here, the first of which is a made negative resolution instrument, under item 3.1 on our agenda. This is…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We'll go straight into business today. The first substantial item is under item 2, which is instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. Here we have just the one item. It's in you papers under item 2.1, SL(6)176. It's a made…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da. Good afternoon. Croeso, bawb. Welcome to this afternoon's meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. As you can see, we're meeting in virtual session this afternoon, but as per normal, even though we're meeting in virtual…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
That brings us, then, rapidly, today—it doesn't always work like that—to item No.7, a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. So, we move into private. Are we happy to do so? We are. Good. We'll…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
That takes us, then, on to item 6, which is papers to note. We have, under item 6.1, a written statement by the First Minister in respect of publication of the terms of reference for the UK-wide COVID-19 public inquiry. And with that, for public record, we…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
That's a really good point, Alun. You've put it forward now. I think, Members, we can consider that when we go into private session. But I think it's definitely worthy of consideration because it's a timely moment to do it. Who knows, he might even have it on…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
That takes us onto item 5 in respect of the inter-institutional relations agreement. Under 5.1, we have correspondence from the First Minister in respect of the inter-institutional relations agreement, in which he confirms that the first meeting of the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common frameworks
No, okay. In which case, we'll note that for now and we will move on to item 4.1, which deals with the provisional plant health common framework, and we have paper 5 there, related to this, in your packs. So, I'd invite committee members to note the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common frameworks
That takes this on, then, to item number 4. We turn to the familiar common frameworks items here, and we have several papers there to note in the pack sent out to Members: a letter from the chair—. Well, it's four items of correspondence under this agenda…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you, Gareth. Are we content to note and agree that draft report? We are. Thank you very much. Thank you, Gareth.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That brings us to item number 3, instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. And we have one item here, item 3.1, which is SL(6)173, the Local Election Survey (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022. It's a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, we will get straight under way then with, as normal, our first substantial item of business under item 2: instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. Under these, we have item 2.1, SL(6)170, the Council Tax (Joint and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good afternoon. Prynhawn da. Croeso ichi i gyd. Welcome, everybody, to this afternoon's meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We have full attendance here, as we so regularly do on this committee, so thanks to all Members for joining…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Just one observation, Chair. The parallel discussion is that the UK have massive investment now in electrification to some of the major metropolitan areas and the north of England and so on; my God, we'd welcome some of that investment in Wales if it was…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Thanks, Chair. It's a really quick one, actually, James. Back in September last year, all the committee members here who are regular subscribers to the TransportXtra online magazine will have been reassured by your quotes within that magazine saying that the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Okay. Chair, I know we're pressed for time here. I'm wondering whether we write to James for further thoughts on the bus reform programme and the review of funding, the bus fleet, all of this, because they're all pertinent now, because it's the next stage…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
I did my best.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
So, can you let us into any insights into what interesting discussions may be going on within Government about reviews of fares as we come out of the pandemic and try to effect this modal shift, not only in rail, but perhaps longer term, in terms of buses as…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Yes, indeed. Before I go on to where we might go in the future with pricing and affordability, and it was a big theme of our meeting this morning with a lot of stakeholders and regular user groups and so on—affordability. It wasn't just some of the well-known…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
And they, of course, are under pressure as well from rising fuel prices and—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Thanks, Chair. I want to move on to affordability and pricing, both of buses and trains. Where are we at the moment in terms of price increases this year? There was a cap put on of, I think, 3.8 per cent from 1 March on rail tickets. What about bus prices?…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Thanks. Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Absolutely.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
So, Geoff, that raises the question, then: the targets that we do have that Jenny referred to, those are aggregated targets, they're clearly based on assumptions of investment in metro and so on—. I guess the question to you both, as TfW and transport experts…
