, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you. Now, colleagues, bear with me. Just to repeat, I've got some problems happening here with my broadband on this end, so just in case I do disappear, hopefully Alun will be able to take over. Can I just check: can anybody hear me at the moment?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Okay, that's brilliant. Colleagues, are there any burning questions that you want to address with the Minister? We've got lots more, Minister, that we wanted to ask, but there's no way we're going to get through it in the final minute. But anything in…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Okay. Well, we might come back with some proposals around the use of superaffirmative as well, to give additional assurances, if this is the way that you're to proceed there. Just one final question from me, and it goes to some real detail. Dr Closs-Davies…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Okay, thank you. Look, this is fascinating, and this might stem from a different interpretation that we have of what scrutiny looks like, but we'll explore this further, I'm sure, and beyond this one-hour session. I've only got a couple of other questions…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Of course you would.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Alun, thank you. Minister, it's interesting, Alun's line of questioning there, because we recognise that the Bill itself is narrow in terms of the way that we're looking at it now, but, on the wider context of scrutiny of finance and budgets coming forward in…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Diolch, Rhys. Thank you very much. Minister, we note your willingness to engage with this and other committees and the suggestions that we might bring forward there. This is a very tricky area, but I think there might be some things that we can put forward…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
But before he does, Rhys, we're going to hand to you to take us on, please.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thanks, Peter. Thank you very much. And, Minister, you're probably aware that Peter's going to pursue you across different committees now on these and other matters.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thanks for that. Peter, I'm going to come back to you, but we may be on two different playing fields here, trying to argue this. You're arguing about the ability of Welsh Government to respond, which I fully understand, and I get the rationale. What we're…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Peter, sorry, before—. I know you want to carry on with this line of questioning. Can I just ask, Minister—? You simply can't amend a statutory instrument, so by the very fact of that, there are fewer opportunities for scrutiny, because you can't amend it.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you, Minister. That was very helpful indeed. Now, that was your starter-for-10 set of questions. We're going to go on to some more detailed questions now, and, Peter, you're going to lead us off.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you, Minister. Now, we're getting to some of the detail of how you're taking this Bill forward, but let me just ask you the obvious one: this Bill is an enabling Bill, so what's the rationale for bringing it forward now? Why do we need it now?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Okay, thank you very much for that. And the second one, which hopefully again will be relatively straightforward, is what assessments you've made in relation to the human rights impact of the Bill and what the outcome was of these assessments. Perhaps you…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
That's lovely. Thank you, both, very much indeed for that introduction there. We're going to go straight into questions, Minister, and we have a lot to ask you. I should say at the outset that that probably means we're going to be writing to you as well after…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill—evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government
So, we've got a busy afternoon in front of us. We're going to go to the first substantive item here, which is the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill. We have an evidence session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government. Minister, you're very…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Welcome to this virtual meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. The meeting is being broadcast on Senedd.tv live, and as per normal we will publish the Record of Proceedings as usual. Now, aside from the usual procedural adaptations…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good afternoon. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to this afternoon's committee meeting.
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
This is a genuinely open question, because I'm impressed, to be honest, at the extent to which the Senedd is opening up to people—young people and others—across the country in terms of saying, 'Come here and experience—get work experience,' or, 'Apply for…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
Thank you very much for that answer.
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
2. What measures are in place to promote opportunities for work experience and open recruitment in the Senedd workplace? OQ57601
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
The inter-governmental reforms do hold out some positive news, I think. If they can be made to be embedded in both the tone of respect but also the machinery of Government that they genuinely are meaningful between Governments, then they hold out some real…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
7. What consideration has the Welsh Government given to the need for inter-parliamentary reforms in light of the changes to inter-governmental relations at a UK level? OQ57602
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I echo the points made by Rhys about proper engagement and the constructive approach being taken by the Minister, but can I just say, citizens across the nation were hanging the bunting out over the weekend. They were overjoyed to hear this news, and also the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
3. What assessment has the Counsel General made of the impact on Wales of the UK Government's proposals for legislation on retained EU law? OQ57599
