, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
3. What assessment has the Minister made of the social justice impacts of the Welsh Government winter fuel support scheme? OQ57406
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill
Our first report, which we laid before the Senedd last November, summarised our consideration of the Welsh Government's original memorandum on the Bill, as well as memorandum No. 2. Now, in that report, we arrived at a number of conclusions that informed the…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill
Thank you once again, Llywydd. We have produced two reports covering the three legislative consent memoranda brought forward by the Welsh Government on this Bill. I hope that they have proved helpful to both the Minister as he has continued to navigate…
, Plenary
, 6. & 7. The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 22) Regulations 2021, The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 23) Regulations 2021 and The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 25) Regulations 2021
Minister, I thank you very much for that assurance. I'm not speaking as Chair of the committee here, I'm just speaking as a humble backbencher, but many of us are union members and have been since our earliest days there. I welcome the reassurances that she's…
, Plenary
, 6. & 7. The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 22) Regulations 2021, The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 23) Regulations 2021 and The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 25) Regulations 2021
'summary impact assessments have been published previously which include impacts relating to face coverings.' However, no reference is made to equality impact assessments relating to regulation changes that exclude natural immunity as a way of demonstrating…
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, 6. & 7. The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 22) Regulations 2021, The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 23) Regulations 2021 and The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 25) Regulations 2021
Now, sometimes, I'm aware that colleagues occasionally find our observations a little dry as we try to shed light, rather than heat, but bear with us, as we hope that our comments will help this Senedd in its job of scrutiny and help the Government by…
, Plenary
, 6. & 7. The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 22) Regulations 2021, The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 23) Regulations 2021 and The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 25) Regulations 2021
Thank you, Llywydd, and thank you, Minister. We considered these regulations at our meeting yesterday, and our reports to the Senedd containing merits reporting points on each of these regulations were laid immediately afterwards.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, thank you for that answer. You will know that this was one of the headline pledges in the Welsh Labour manifesto, which won such strong support from the people of Wales last year. It included a fair deal for care, with the real living wage for…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. What progress has the Welsh Government made in relation to the pledge to provide a work, education or training offer for all under 25s set out in the Welsh Labour manifesto of 2021? OQ57409
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
There we are, and we will now go into private session, and I will wait for our team to tell us when we are in private.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Thank you, Alun, and I think that's something that Peter and I would definitely agree with. Thank you very much for putting that on record.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
We now need to go into private session so we can discuss that and some other matters as well. So, under Standing Order 17.42, could I ask committee members if they're happy to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
We move on to item 7.4, correspondence from the Local Government and Housing Committee in respect of the legislative consent memorandum on the Building Safety Bill. This is highlighting concerns about the Welsh Government’s use of legislative consent…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Which then brings us then to item No. 7. We have some papers to note at this stage, which we can come back to in private session if needed. First of all, item 7.1. We have a written statement by the Welsh Government in respect of the Public Service Pensions…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement
Item No. 6, then. We turn our attention to the inter-institutional relations agreement and we have, under 6.1, correspondence from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd and the Minister for Climate Change in respect of the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common Frameworks
Which brings us on now, having dealt with some important, there, regular bread-and-butter issues, to another aspect that we turn our attention to regularly, which is the common frameworks, and, in so doing, just to confirm to committee members and for the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments previously considered for sifting and now subject to scrutiny under Standing Orders 21.2 and 21.3
Okay. Any comments from colleagues or are we happy to agree the reporting points? We are happy to agree that. Thank you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments previously considered for sifting and now subject to scrutiny under Standing Orders 21.2 and 21.3
We now turn to, then, item No. 4. This relates to instruments that were previously considered for sifting and are now subject to scrutiny under Standing Orders 21.2 and 21.3. So, the first one of these is under item 4.1. It's SL(6)107, the Food Information…
, 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. I think we'll be happy to agree that, looking to colleagues—yes, we are.
, 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. Are we happy to agree those reporting points? We are. We move on to item 3.13, SL(6)122, the Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021. Again, there are two sets of papers there for you on this particular…
, 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 for that. Are we happy to agree those reporting points? We are; thank you very much. And we will move on then to item 3.12, SL(6)124, the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 25) Regulations 2021. There's a…
, 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, Gareth, and I think it's quite helpful, in light of the earlier discussion amongst committee colleagues and what was raised by Peter, that the examination by this committee, whilst not making a value judgment on the policy, can helpfully…
, 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 excellent. Thank you, Gareth. And, sometimes, actually drawing attention to these things and getting the clarification and correcting the errors is part and parcel of what this committee does as well. So, thank you very much for that. Are we happy to…
, 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 indeed for that, Gareth. And, just out of interest for those observing this public session, this is something that I understand, from discussions with the committee team, that our predecessor committee actually raised with UK Government…
, 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. In that case, I suspect we will be content to agree those reporting points. We are; we agree and note them. Thank you very much. Okay. So, that brings us on to—. We have a great deal of business in front of us today, so bear with us if you're…
