28 November 2023 , Plenary
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Civil Sanctions) (Wales) Regulations 2023
I'll turn directly to our report, which contains four technical reporting points, all of which were made because we consider there are parts of the regulations that require further explanation. In our first technical reporting point, we asked the Welsh…
28 November 2023 , Plenary
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Civil Sanctions) (Wales) Regulations 2023
Thank you, Llywydd. We considered these draft regulations on 20 November and subsequently considered the Government's response at our meeting yesterday afternoon. Our report and the Welsh Government's response are available on today's agenda.
28 November 2023 , Plenary
, 9. & 10. The Waste Separation Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2023, The Prohibition on the Incineration, or the Deposit in Landfill, of Specified Waste (Wales) Regulations 2023, and The Prohibition on Disposal of Food Waste to Sewer (Civil Sanctions) (Wales) Order 2023
Our reports on these draft statutory instruments contain a total of 18 reporting points. Now, it's not possible to cover all the issues this afternoon, so I will highlight the broad themes and issues, some of which are present in all three instruments and…
28 November 2023 , Plenary
, 9. & 10. The Waste Separation Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2023, The Prohibition on the Incineration, or the Deposit in Landfill, of Specified Waste (Wales) Regulations 2023, and The Prohibition on Disposal of Food Waste to Sewer (Civil Sanctions) (Wales) Order 2023
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I thank you, Minister, as well. We considered all three of these draft statutory instruments on 20 November, and we subsequently considered the Government’s responses at our meeting yesterday afternoon. Our reports and the Welsh…
28 November 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Can I put the what I think is the moral and the economic case for growing the economy in South Wales West, and indeed the Valleys of South Wales West as well, which would create more jobs and get more just distribution of investment? Those two examples are to…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
We'll then move to item 8, a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting so that we can go into private discussions. Are we content to do so? We are. We will move into private session, and we will wait…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion to elect a temporary Chair under Standing Order 17.22 for the committee meeting on 4 December 2023
Alun, genuinely, I really appreciate it, and committee members do as well. There will be somebody substituting for Alun, then, because he's chairing it, and somebody substituting for Adam as well, possibly, for next week, but we'll get all of that in order…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion to elect a temporary Chair under Standing Order 17.22 for the committee meeting on 4 December 2023
Before we do go into private, there's one final thing we need to do, colleagues, under item 7. Next week, I will be away at the PPA, which comes under the partnership agreement, in London. Also, this committee will be considering not only our regular run of…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Thank you, Alun. Some really good points there. And these areas over the international trade agreements and also, in a slightly different way, the operation internally of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 within the UK and the impact on devolved…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
In which case, that takes us on, then, to item No. 6, which is papers to note. The first of these—in fact, there’s only one in this section today—is item 6.1. We have correspondence from the Minister for Economy in respect of the Trade (Comprehensive and…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Item No. 5 is notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. The first of these items is item 5.1, where we have a letter from the Minister for Economy in respect of the Interministerial Group for Trade. Just to formally…
27 November 2023 , 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 great. Thank you. If we’re happy to note that, colleagues, then we’ll move on then to item No. 5. Thank you very much for that to our legal colleagues here on the committee.
27 November 2023 , 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
Fascinating. Yes, thank you, Kate. Again, we’ll return to it in private session, but that aspect of consistency in legal terminology is the same in Welsh as it is in English, so I think we will return to this in private session and see how we can assist the…
27 November 2023 , 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
Thank you very much, Kate, and it's good to have that on public record. We may come back to that in private session, as to whether there's anything we do beyond putting that on public record here today, that we don't consider that good practice. But…
27 November 2023 , 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
So, we'll move on then to item No. 4. We've got several items under this, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we've previously considered. The first of these, under item 4.1, is SL(6)404…
27 November 2023 , 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. Okay, are we happy to agree those reporting points? We are.
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That sounds good. Are we happy to agree those reporting points and that our lawyers will take that away and consider the Welsh Government response for next week? Thank you, Kate. That takes us on, then, to item 3.2, SL(6)415, the Renting Homes (Miscellaneous…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We'll move on to item No.3, where we have instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3. So, we'll begin here with item 3.1, a made negative resolution instrument, SL(6)414, the Education (Student Loans)…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We move to item No. 2, then, instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3. We have one item here under this section. It's SL(6)416, an affirmative resolution instrument, the Representation of the People (Electoral Registers…
27 November 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da. Croeso, bawb. Welcome to this afternoon's 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 normal. Apart from…
22 November 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
That's good.
22 November 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Sorry.
22 November 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
On active travel.
22 November 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Right, okay. Just one final question. I declare an interest here; I think all of us declare an interest—we're all members of the Senedd cross-party group on active travel. We carried out an expert review panel on the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013. We came to…
22 November 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Phased, okay. Okay. And it could be regionally phased as well.
