12 July 2023 , Plenary
Petitions Committee and Children, Young People, and Education Committee Joint Debate—Services for care-experienced children and young people
I'll take an intervention, Lynne, that's fine.
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Petitions Committee and Children, Young People, and Education Committee Joint Debate—Services for care-experienced children and young people
First, I'd like to start by thanking the Chair of our committee, Jayne Bryant, and other members of our committee, and on the other committee that's brought this forward today, for all the work that they've done on this, and the clerking team as well, for all…
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee Report—Common Frameworks
Diolch, Deputy Presiding Officer. The joys of having such a diligent Chair of our committee actually means that a lot of what I wanted to say has already been covered in the eight minutes in which the Chair has spoken. But I'd just like to thank the Chair and…
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
I'd like to thank you for your answer, Minister. It was very deeply concerning to read about the recent announcement that Dŵr Cymru have been downgraded again, for the second year running, for failing to make the improvements necessary to clean up our…
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
2. Will the Minister make a statement on Welsh Water having its rating reduced by Natural Resources Wales? TQ825
12 July 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Minister, in your opening remarks to Huw Irranca-Davies you said that having recreational access to the countryside will have massive health benefits for our population, but what we do need to make people aware of is the countryside code, and, actually…
11 July 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language: Progress on the roll-out of the new curriculum
I'd like to thank the Minister for your statement this afternoon. Minister, many schools that I have visited in my constituency and right across Wales welcome the roll-out of the new Curriculum for Wales and the flexibility that it gives schools to design…
11 July 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: Government response to the second phase of the sustainable farming scheme co-design
Diolch, Cadeirydd. And Minister, I'd like to thank you for your statement today. I'm interested in the sustainable farming scheme, what protection there is going to be for active farmers and our tenant farmers. Because what we don't want to see is big…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Well, let's hope you make those recommendations to the Cabinet. [Laughter.]
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
And just one final question on this, Chair. I know we're short on time. There are a number of Government Bills that the First Minister announced in the legislative programme that are coming forward in the following year. How many of those are going to be…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
And is that the default position for Welsh Government, that you would rather these fuller Bills early on, rather than these framework Bills, because we could see an agricultural Act mark II coming through to replace the one that's there now?
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I'm going to talk about primary legislation, Counsel General. One thing we've noted as a committee that is happening more in this Senedd term is that an increasing amount of framework Bills have come forward. We've had the Agriculture…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Okay. That's fine.
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
So, just to—. On what we discussed earlier, if they do go back on their word and the concession that you have had, what is the Welsh Government going to do to ensure that there is proper scrutiny of all of this legislation?
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch, Cadeirydd. There has been concern, Counsel General, that the Bill does give very broad powers to both Ministers here within Wales and Ministers of the Crown at the UK Government, and there is a very, very serious risk that the Senedd would be bypassed…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
On the not-using-it point, can you then see where other Governments could say, 'Well, this is just a bit of political mischief making. They're saying 'no' to these Bills, but not going through any process to try and get them resolved formally, which is in…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
But when?
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Yes. It's just that you say, Counsel General, that your view is that the UK Government is disregarding Sewel. You said in the Chamber that they use a 'centralised, unilateral and destructive approach to the devolution settlement'. If you believe that and the…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Sorry, Counsel General, but do you think doing that, though, would actually focus hearts and minds on actually getting these things right, getting the engagement right, rather than this long, drawn-out process—that this could be a mechanism to actually…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
It's interesting, Counsel General, because we've talked about LCMs in this committee a number of times. We talked about one this morning, about how inter-governmental relations work. There are Members on this committee who've been in both Governments and…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
It has, and inter-governmental relations, as you know, Counsel General, is something that we do like to talk about a great deal in this committee, and how we can actually improve relations across all the Governments of the United Kingdom. But in the…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Are last known address.
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
I totally agree with Alun, perhaps not on the devolution point of it, but actually, selling it to the public, it does need to have that wider piece of work, and I think, from where I sit in things, just around the resource element as well, is resource going…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
[Inaudible.]—Counsel General, when you talked about the potential of the devolution of policing, over the UK, the public's perception of the police is actually going down, in their ability to deal with crime. I'm interested in how you believe that devolving…
10 July 2023 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
The Welsh Government’s legislative consent memorandum on the Energy Bill: Scrutiny session with the Minister for Climate Change
Minister, as you said, it's not an ideal situation to be in, and you've outlined that you don't think it respects the devolved competencies of the Senedd or Ministers, but we are where we are. What I'm interested in is, when you've written to the UK…
