, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Well, exciting times. Alun, over to you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you for that. I'm going to bring Alun in just in a moment, but I wonder if I could just go back to one of Peter's points here about the role of Welsh Government in engaging, proposing, and identifying opportunities for new potential groups. And this…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thanks, Peter. Rhys, you wanted to come in.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Go ahead, Piers.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Interesting. Peter.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
[Inaudible.]—Peter, here on the committee. Do you think we will see, not just when there is a big blow-out on a dispute over whether the principle is applied, but to see some, not all of them—we wouldn't want to, and we appreciate what you're saying about…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you for that. Look, it's going to be a pretty safe bet, Counsel General, that at some point there's going to be a disagreement that these principles are being properly applied. It's almost inevitable. Let's hope it's not too often, but it's almost…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Look, I think that we would welcome, as a committee, that positive approach to making this work. And we'd want to see that, not only from yourself and Welsh Government, but from the UK Government as well, to make this work, because it does depend on the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
That's brilliant. Okay, we are looking today at the inter-governmental relations review and what's come out of it. We've noticed that, when you have appeared in front of us and in the Senedd before, you have always been quite optimistic about the discussions…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
We have with us on our screens in front of us our Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, Mick Antoniw. You are very welcome indeed, Minister. I just want to introduce your colleagues as well here. We have Piers Bisson, the director of European…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Welcome to this afternoon's session of the Legislation, Constitution and Justice Committee. Just as a reminder, this is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, and we will also be publishing the Record of Proceedings as normal. Apart from the procedural…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good afternoon and welcome, everyone.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
I'm going to—to the disappointment of many, I know—strip out the politics entirely for this. In a mature democracy across the UK, when we are faced with several crises at once—we have the climate change crisis; we have the crisis we see involving now…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
6. What discussions has the Minister had with the UK Treasury to ensure that the Welsh Government has the finance it needs to support those facing a cost-of-living crisis? OQ57738
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill
Llywydd, with your invitation, I've spoken as Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee in debates on legislative consent motions in each of the past four weeks. People are getting tired of hearing from me now. Indeed, since the start of…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill
Thanks again, Llywydd. We reported on the original legislative consent memorandum for this Bill last month. With memorandum No. 2 only being laid late last week, my committee was only in a position to note its arrival yesterday, but no more than that.
, Plenary
The Local Elections (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2022
Diolch, Llywydd, and I'll speak very briefly today. We considered these regulations at our meeting on 28 February, and our report to the Senedd contains just one merits reporting point, which I'll speak to this afternoon. Now, as the Minister has said, these…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
My apologies. I'll wait until next week. [Laughter.]
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Could I ask for one statement and one debate? The statement is one I know that the Trefnydd will be familiar with in her departmental role as well. Back in autumn 2019—. Sorry, I do declare my interest as the Atlantic salmon champion for the Senedd…
, 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 is, depending on Members' will, the conclusion of the public session today. So, we can go into private. So, can I ask, under Standing Order 17.42, if we are agreed to resolve to exclude the public from the rest of the meeting? And we are. Okay…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
If we turn to item 4 then, which are papers to note. Now, there's a string of papers here. If, for the public record, I list them and note them, but if Members want to raise anything, just flag it with me. Under 4.1, we have correspondence from the Minister…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
And this brings us then to item number 3, inter-institutional relations agreement. And, in respect of that, we have a letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs, North Wales, and Trefnydd of 2 March, confirming that she has granted approval to the UK…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common frameworks
So, we'll move on to business in front of us today. It's not an extensive range of business, and some of this we'll want to discuss in private subsequently. But, first of all, if we deal as we normally do first of all with common frameworks. We have a letter…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this afternoon's session of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We are now in public session and this session today is operating in hybrid mode. So, we have no apologies; all our committee members are here. We're back in the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon. Welcome to you all. Welcome to the committee this afternoon.
