, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Would you be commenting in your next report, as you monitor and cast your purview over the operation of this, on how effectively you're thinking those common frameworks are working? Because if they work well, it resolves some of the policy and political…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Thank you very much. James, we'll come back to you, please, to take us on to the next area of questioning.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Okay. Peredur.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Do you agree that this matter of greater flexibility for exclusions from the market access principles has merit in it—those who've argued that there should be—and, if so, how can that be achieved?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
So, do I take it from that that you have some sympathy with those who have argued for greater flexibility to create exclusions from the market access—? Sorry, I don't want to put words in your mouth there.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
No, that's absolutely fine. Thank you for that. Let me turn to the issue a little bit more on regulatory divergence, because you note in your report that there have been relatively few regulatory developments impacting on the UK internal market. But can I ask…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Yes, indeed.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Yes, the economic effects rather than the issues of competence and so on, yes.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
I appreciate that there's a limit to how far you can delve into individual issues, but we've got lots of stakeholders out there who are very interested in exactly the application of this in practice with the single-use plastics issue, and I do understand the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
No, no—go on.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Did you want to add something, Mr MacLennan?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Alun. Thank you.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Thank you, James. I'm going to go to Alun. Alun's going to delve a bit deeper into some of this now. But before I do, you were asking about opportunities to engage wider; one of the very good opportunities in Wales that the Welsh Government uses and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Okay. Thank you very much. James, let's bring you in.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
And your statutory remit, whereas some of the data might be very interesting for us.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
That's great. Thanks, Pred. I'm going to pass to James online just in a moment, but it's quite interesting; if I'm clear from what you're saying there in answer to Pred's question about the Windsor framework, you will be doing some interesting data monitoring…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
That's quite clear—quite clear what you'd like to see, so—. Sorry, Pered.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Is the process similar to what we know in other appointments systems, where there's been a range of people interviewed and a list will be put forward to—?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Okay. Good. Let me hand to Peredur to take us on.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Okay. That's very good, but that parity and even-handedness in the way that you meet with the four, that's what you're applying in practice.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Wonderful. Thank you very much. That's a really helpful scene setting and bringing us up to date with your work so far and the reports that you referred to as well. You mentioned the even-handedness that your approach necessitates. One aspect of that is how…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
With that, and noting that we are fully quorate today, we're going to go straight to our evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market. We're delighted to have with us today Murdoch MacLennan, chair of the Office for the Internal Market panel, and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this meeting this afternoon of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee here in committee room 3 of the Senedd. We also have a committee colleague, James, joining us through a virtual setting today, but we have a full turnout here of all…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Papers to note
Members, if we can just turn to agenda item 4, please, and just the papers to note. Jenny.
