13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thank you, Chair. Can I ask whether you think, on that basis, that we should in Wales, with some top-down direction from Welsh Government, apply exactly that normative approach to public transport planning, where you say the values we expect to have from…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Chair, rather than asking everybody to reply, could I just ask you how good do you think we've been at promotion and marketing of public transport, community transport, and alternatives to the car before the pandemic? And how good do you think we are…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
Thanks, Chair. Very briefly, if we pull all this together—nudges, tackling the supply-and-demand issues, technical fixes to make it easier and more convenient to travel by bus and less convenient, I think we have to be honest, to travel by car, and make that…
13 July 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 4
A very short supplementary, thanks, Chair. Is there any difference between those areas where the operators, such as a municipal authority in Cardiff, have higher wages, and other operators, in terms of that driver shortage? Is there a difference, where there…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Thank you, Minister, for giving way. One of the reassurances the Minister could give to the Senedd today, in the collaborative way that she has taken forward these changes to the existing legislation and proposals for what comes forward—. In those proposals…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Will the Minister give way on that point?
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Diolch yn fawr iawn. He raises an important point that the LJC committee raised, but, actually, we looked to the Minister to make amendments to this piece of legislation now in order to be able to deal with issues that have already been taken forward in the…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Debate: Stage 4 of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill
Llyr, will you take an intervention?
12 July 2022 , Plenary
The Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2022
Diolch, Lywydd, and for the final time today, Minister. [Laughter.] We considered these regulations yesterday afternoon, and our report contains two merits reporting points. While we have not sought a Welsh Government response to those points, our second…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
The Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
Diolch, Llywydd. Far from the weighty policy matters here, we've got some technical and merits points to raise in terms of making Welsh law accessible first. The Order is made in exercise of the power in section 81(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
, 8. & 9. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Housing Association Tenancies: Fundamental Provisions) Regulations 2022, The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12) Regulations 2022 and The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Thank you, Minister, for your kind comments about the work that we've done and the engagement that you've had with us on this. In respect of your opening remarks, we do love 'technical and complex'. The suite of regulations today is part of the third tranche…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
, 8. & 9. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Housing Association Tenancies: Fundamental Provisions) Regulations 2022, The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12) Regulations 2022 and The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you, Minister. We considered this suite of regulations during our meeting yesterday and laid our report straight after.
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: 10-year Welsh in Education Strategic Plans
I simply want to come in on the back of Luke's comments there, because there is a fair degree of confidence that the Minister has expressed in Bridgend, and also in the Rhondda Cynon Taf patch of my constituency as well, in their WESP plans going forward. But…
12 July 2022 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: 10-year Welsh in Education Strategic Plans
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer; I apologise.
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
And that does bring us now to item No. 8, our regular motion under Standing Order 17.42 as to whether we're happy to exclude the public for the rest of the meeting so that we can discuss things now in private. Are we happy to do so, colleagues? We are. In…
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
That brings us on then to item 7, papers to note, beginning with item 7.1, and, again, shout at me, colleagues, if you want to pause on any of this. But the first one is correspondence from the Minister for Social Justice, noting the committee's request for…
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We move on to item No. 6, notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. The first of these is item 6.1, where we have correspondence from the Minister for Economy that informs the committee that a meeting of the…
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Written statements under Standing Order 30C
On we go to item No. 5, written statements under Standing Order 30C. The first of these is item 5.1, WS-30C(6)010, European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment and Revocation) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022. We have a written…
11 July 2022 , 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
Well, thank you very much. Item 4.2, SL(6)228, the Restricted Roads (20 mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022, and we have in your papers a report and the Welsh Government response. As you know, we considered this at our meeting on 4 July, we laid the report…
11 July 2022 , 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, to item No. 4, our standing item on instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3 that we have previously considered. The first of these is item 4.1, which is SL(6)218, the Provision…
11 July 2022 , 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. Content, everybody? We are. Okay.
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
No. Okay, that's great. Well, colleagues, as long as you're happy to agree those reporting points, we will send it back with some constructive and helpful pointers there. Kate, thank you very much for that. In which case we'll go on to item 3.8, moving away…
11 July 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. Well, thank you very much for that, and committee members breathed a sigh of relief when you said you weren't going to go through all 35 there. But we have the report to study and which no doubt Welsh Government will want to study as well there. It's…
11 July 2022 , 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, Kate. And, committee colleagues, if I can just ask: are you happy on those three with the reporting points? We are. Good. We can agree those. There's a reason I paused at 3.7, which will become apparent in a moment. So, item 3.7, which is part of…
11 July 2022 , 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 brilliant. Thank you for that. I'm going to go on to the third one of these and then I'll pause for a moment. Item 3.6, SL(6)227, the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment) Regulations 2022, and we have a draft report and a written statement of 21…
