, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Colleagues, under item 9, Standing Order 17.42, are you happy to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting? Thank you. We'll go into private, please.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion to appoint a temporary Chair under Standing Order 17.22 for the Committee meeting on 18 March 2024
Thank you, Sam. Content? Thank you. Alun, you've been duly nominated again. Thank you for stepping in again on that. So, I can confirm that Alun Davies has been elected temporary Chair for that meeting.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion to appoint a temporary Chair under Standing Order 17.22 for the Committee meeting on 18 March 2024
Under item 8, we need to consider a motion to elect a temporary Chair under Standing Order 17.22 for the committee meeting on 18 March 2024; that's next week. This is because, in my role as Chair of the LJC, I'm attending a meeting along with another…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
So, colleagues, we go on then to item 7, which is papers to note. We begin with item 7.1, with correspondence from the Minister for Economy, providing the Welsh Government's response to the committee's report on the Welsh Government's legislative consent…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We'll go on, then, to item 6, where we have notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. You can see quite a range of correspondence here under item 6.1 and I invite you to note the correspondence from the Welsh…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Kate, yes. Thank you very much. Very important. Thank you for stopping us there at that point. That was very important. We're happy to agree those reporting points and note that response, as well. Thank you very much for that analysis.
, 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
Oh yes, indeed. Yes, sorry, Kate. Go ahead.
, 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
No. Then, it's for us to note. I'll rattle through these, but jump in, colleagues, if you want to. Item 5.2, we note SL(6)455, the Education (Student Finance) (Fee Limit and Loan Amounts) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024 and the report and…
, 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'll go on, then, to item 5, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3 that have been previously considered by our committee. In fact, all the items here were previously considered at our meeting…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7
Thank you very much. Happy to agree that? We are. Thank you very much.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7
Thank you very much. Happy to agree that? We are. Thank you very much. This takes us to the second item in this section: item 4.2, SL(6)461, the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitory Provision) (Amendment) Order…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7
We turn to item 4, then, which are instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7. The first of these—we have two items in this section—is item 4.1, SL(6)460, the Building Safety Act 2022 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional…
, 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. Any comments or observations, or are we happy to agree those points? We are. Thank you.
, 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. Are we happy to agree those reporting points? We are. Thank you very much. We go on to item 3.3 then, SL(6)463, the Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024. We have a draft report in our pack. These…
, 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. And we don't need a Welsh Government response for this one, so, are we happy to note that? We are. We're happy to agree that. We turn, then, to an affirmative resolution instrument, under item 3.2. This is SL(6)462, the Regulated Services…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We're coming back into public session here, to continue our session today of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We've just finished an evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change, and we're now going on to item 3, which is…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Welcome back, everyone.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Minister, thank you very much. Colleagues, have you got any other questions? In which case, Minister, it just falls to me to thank you and your officials for joining us this morning. I wish you well with the rest of the day ahead. We'll send you, of course, a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Alun, you looked quizzical then.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
And just finally, for all the discussion that we've had today—and we're not a policy committee—around process, scrutiny in terms of competences, and the legal processes within this as well, how would you respond to those who would say, 'Well, this is being…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Just a couple of final questions from me. We talked previously about the issue of the retrospective nature of some of these provisions. Do you have any evidence or data to back up your justification for these? For example, how many tenants are currently party…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you very much. That's quite interesting for us, because I guess the alternative approach would have been, Minister, to lay an early LCM and then subsequent ones, and I know we've had these discussions before: what do you do with the timing if you know…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Sam.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you, Sam. We're almost at a conclusion here, but if I can just ask a couple of detailed technical and process questions here. One is in respect of the written statements for occupation contracts. If our understanding is correct, these are going to have…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Thanks, Alun. Sam.
