4 March 2024 , 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. Thanks for that analysis, really strong and detailed. Are we happy to agree those points, colleagues? We are. Thank you. We'll go on then, Kate and colleagues, to item 2.4. We've got two items left in this section. Item 2.4 relates to…
4 March 2024 , 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 points, colleagues? We are, good. We'll move on then to item 2.3, and item 2.3 is an affirmative resolution instrument, SL(6)456, the Packaging Waste (Data Collection and Reporting) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations…
4 March 2024 , 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. Any comments, colleagues, or are we happy to note that? Agreeing, yes. We agree those reporting points, Kate, thank you. We'll go to item number 2.2, then, please. We have a draft report and a written statement by the Minister for Education…
4 March 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, with that, and noting that we're fully quorate, let's go straight to our first substantive item, which is item 2, the instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.1 or 21.2. And the first of these is a made negative…
4 March 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everybody, to this afternoon's meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We're in a virtual setting today, with all our members here. So, just some housekeeping issues right at the very beginning. We're being broadcast live on…
4 March 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon and welcome, everyone.
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
—and for decent reward. My apologies. Can I simply say: let us use this consultation to reflect on concerns, but let us not argue that the status quo is sustainable? It is not. We need to move forward together.
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
Yes. I absolutely agree that we need farmers to buy into this. We need to bring farmers with us on this and engage with farmers. And I have to say, the Minister has been strenuous in trying to say that's exactly what this is: this is a genuine, meaningful…
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
First of all, let me thank the farmers in my own constituency for the work that they do producing good, nutritious food in ways that are good for animal welfare, with open grazing on grass pasture and good for wildlife and biodiversity, and for our ecosystem…
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
It is on this strange dichotomy that we have. I understand the arguments for food security, but at the same time, my upland hill farmers are exporting much of their lamb because the market pays a premium for it in Brussels, in France and in the middle east…
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
Will you give way?
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Debate on the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee Report, 'International Relations: Annual Report 2022-23'
Many people have remarked already on the importance of promoting the social, cultural and economic links of Wales internationally, and that is absolutely true. And in case anybody hasn't mentioned it, can I be the very first to congratulate, in that field of…
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
I thank you for that answer, Minister. Sometimes, people look at dairy farming and suspect there's only one direction of travel: it's the consolidation of units, bigger herds in barns rather than out on the pasture, it's the creation of more slurry, and so…
28 February 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
5. What assessment has the Minister made of the importance of regenerative dairy farming to the future of sustainable farming in Wales? OQ60752
27 February 2024 , Plenary
Statutory Instrument Consent Memorandum—The Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024
We laid our report on the Welsh Government's memorandum in respect of the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024 on 20 February. My thanks to committee colleagues and to our clerking team, as always…
27 February 2024 , Plenary
Statutory Instrument Consent Memorandum—The Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you, Minister, too.
27 February 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Policy Statement on Apprenticeships
It depends what position you're holding then.
27 February 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: Policy Statement on Apprenticeships
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I welcome the Government statement today, and, indeed, the apprenticeships policy statement that accompanies it as well. Like my colleague Luke Fletcher, as we're co-chairing the cross-party group on apprenticeships that was set up…
27 February 2024 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. My thanks, as always, to my committee colleagues for their consideration of this matter, and also our expert and very diligent clerks and advisers. We laid our report on this, on the Welsh Government’s memorandum in respect of the…
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Colleagues, with that, unless there are any other observations, we can move to item 7, which is our normal motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Are you content to do so? We are, and we'll move…
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
We'll go on to item 6, papers to note. I'll proceed through these, colleagues, but, as normal, if there's anything you want to stop me on, just shout out. First of all, under item 6.1, we have correspondence from Sam Rowlands MS to the Children, Young People…
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We'll go on to item 5, notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. The first item we have here is item 5.1, where we're invited to note the correspondence from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and…
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7—previously considered
Are we content with that, colleagues? We are.
26 February 2024 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7—previously considered
If colleagues don't have any more comments on that, we'll go to item 4, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7 that we've previously considered. There's only one item in this section, it's item 4.1…
26 February 2024 , 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
Brilliant. Thank you very much, Kate.
