17 January 2023 , Plenary
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…
17 January 2023 , Plenary
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.
17 January 2023 , Plenary
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…
17 January 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
We’re very busy.
17 January 2023 , Plenary
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.
17 January 2023 , Plenary
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…
17 January 2023 , Plenary
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…
17 January 2023 , Plenary
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…
16 January 2023 , 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.
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
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.
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
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…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
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…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
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…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Written Statements under Standing Order 30C
Nothing, okay. Any comments or questions, colleagues? No, we're okay on that. Okay, so we note that.
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
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…
16 January 2023 , 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 good; okay. Any comments on this, colleagues? No, we're happy with that. Thank you very much.
16 January 2023 , 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
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…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
There we are. So, a good heads up for that letter at item 9.3 from the Permanent Secretary. Thank you very much. Any comments on that? No. We're happy to agree that report, then. Thank you very much.
16 January 2023 , 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 very much for that. On the issue of the use of Welsh, which we turn to a lot in this committee, we have under a later item, 9.3, a response from the Permanent Secretary that is relevant to this and in some ways is helpful as well. This applies also…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. And the two merits points.
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
On to item 4, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. The first of these under item 4.1 is an affirmative resolution instrument, SL(6)301, the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales)…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Croeso nôl. Welcome back to this session of the committee this afternoon. We’ve just taken evidence from the Counsel General and his team, but we’re moving on now to item 3, our regular business. We’ve got, first of all, under item 3, instruments that raise…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023-24 (spending in relation to justice) and general scrutiny: Evidence Session with Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Colleagues, as our witnesses leave, if we can progress through some items of business here, if you're happy to. Actually, what we will do, if you're happy, is we'll take a very short intermission and return—just five minutes. We'll come back at 13:50. So…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023-24 (spending in relation to justice) and general scrutiny: Evidence Session with Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you very much. We have indeed come to the end of time. Alun has brought us to the cliff edge now where you have to leave. We might write to you on a couple of other matters that we didn't have quite enough time to get to, including issues around…
16 January 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Government's Draft Budget for 2023-24 (spending in relation to justice) and general scrutiny: Evidence Session with Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Okay, thank you. We don't have enough time to explore that further. [Laughter.] Alun, over to you.
