, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Diolch, Adam. Alun.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
That's great. Thank you. Adam.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
That's brilliant. Thanks, Sam. Just one point of clarification there: Sam's point on signing off on the provisions relating to devolved areas; one of the things of interest for this committee is whether you signed them off before those were tabled, because it…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Any of your colleagues want to come in? Good morning as well to Helen Kellaway. Gareth.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you, Minister. Thanks, Alun. Alun goes back over the ropes. Sam, come in.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you for that. Right, we're playing tag on this now to try and explore your reasons for bringing forward the legislation in the way that you have. Alun, over to you, come in over the ropes.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you for that. You've argued cogently the policy reasons behind this and you've mentioned expediency and you've mentioned as well that, within the given resources that you have, you have to make choices as to how to bring this forward. So, we note that…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Thank you. Can I ask, just how do you reconcile that with the growing body of Welsh legislation within housing law that has grown up since 2014—primary legislation, secondary legislation? Using a UK Government Bill, as you say, you've just explained it's…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
—Caroline Matthews—good morning, Minister—Caroline Matthews, senior lawyer for Welsh Government. We have Gareth Baglow—I can see you on the screen—senior private sector housing policy manager for Welsh Government. I don't think we have Helen Kellaway at the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
So, with that, we're going to go straight to the first substantive item on today's agenda, which is, as mentioned, the legislative consent memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill, our evidence session. And we have with us, Julie James, Member of the Senedd…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. Bore da, pawb. Welcome to this meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. Just as a reminder, the meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. We have no apologies…
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 16: Referendum on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (Amendments 36, 37)
I'm just wondering about the astronomical costs that you talk about. Based on freedom of information costs, apparently, over the last four years, the police and crime commissioners have cost in excess of £100 million. Where did that feature in a clear…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
Thank you, Minister, and I welcome that answer. The way in which we carry out political and public discourse really matters. Words matter, and inflammatory language can heighten tensions and sometimes even lead to fatal conclusions. Women politicians can…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
7. How does the Welsh Government support efforts to tackle hate speech and radicalisation in Wales? OQ60762
, Committee of the Whole Senedd
Group 1: Senedd constituency boundary reviews: definitions and interpretation, representation periods, reports, and implementation (Amendments 59, 60, 76, 77, 91, 98, 100, 79, 105, 25, 54, 55, 56, 108, 15, 110, 16, 17, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115)
Do you accept that there is a solid argument, actually, for a transfer of some of the funds that are now spent on the largesse within the House of Lords and actually devolving some of that funding out to the regions, including, I have to say, within England…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I've phrased this question deliberately, First Minister, because I understand that, shortly, you'll be joining me on the back benches here, stepping back from the driving seat. It's often described as a journey, this devolution process, and during that…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
3. What is the First Minister's vision for the development of Senedd Cymru over the next 10 years? OQ60761
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Colleagues, we have zipped through there a lot of important business, and we thank our legal team and our clerks for their help in putting together those reports, but if you’re content, we will now, under item 6, put the motion, under Standing Order 17.42, to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Okay, let’s go on, then, to item 5, where we have papers to note. And, again, just for colleagues to be aware, we can return to any of those items we’ve just discussed and here in our private session this afternoon. So, we’ll turn to item 5.1. We only have…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We'll go on, then, to item No. 4, which is the notifications of correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. We have a few items here in this section for our attention in public session today. The first of these, under item 4.1, is the…
, 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
Okay. Any comments, colleagues, or are we happy to note that response? We are. Okay, 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—previously considered
That's really helpful. Thank you for that, and it's good that we've got that on public record now as well. Thank you very much. Colleagues, if you're content with that, we'll go on to the other one in this section, then, which is item 3.2, SL(6)453, the…
, 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
Item 3 is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we've previously considered. We've got a couple of items in this section. The first one is a made negative resolution instrument under item 3.1. This…
, 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, Kate. Colleagues, if we're content then, we can close that section and go on to the next section.
, 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 content, colleagues? We are. Thank you. Okay. And the final one in this section then is item 2.5, which is SL(6)458, the Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Amendment) and Tax Collection and Management (Wales) Act 2016 (Miscellaneous…
