, Plenary
Short Debate: Full-face coverings are against British values
We are being asked to debate about people on the basis of what we imagine their lives to be. Their lives are not fictional, they are real, and what we debate here deeply matters to them, and affects their perception of their home here in Wales. I want to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Senedd Commission
The Member says his glasses caused a stir. They certainly did. The Commission is undertaking a review, the Cabinet Office has enforced a ban, and it's only a matter of time before other organisations follow suit. The review isn't the problem; the gap before…
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Questions to the Senedd Commission
2. What safeguards will the Commission put in place regarding the use of smartglasses on the Senedd estate? OQ64771
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
Courts and tribunals have restricted these devices, and, in fact, I've just heard the Cabinet Office banned them last week. I think we've learned that news from this Chamber travels rather fast. In fact, the Member's glasses opposite have been discussed in…
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Questions to the Counsel General
9. What legal advice has the Counsel General provided to the Welsh Government regarding the use of AI-enabled smart glasses in public buildings such as libraries and swimming pools given the ban in courts and tribunals? OQ64749
, Legislation Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Just in terms of when the documents will be published, obviously, fishermen are going to need some more guidance about this, and, as such, there's no indicative timetable as to when this is, especially if they're fishing, and they need to have guidance.
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
Do you accept that there have been instances where councils have been allowed to increase the council tax without a referendum and, actually, some of the worst examples are in Reform-led councils, including Worcestershire, at 9 per cent?
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Local referendums on council tax rises
I want to address why referendums on council tax increases above 4.99 per cent would be utterly unfeasible. Now, I'm not going to get into a debate about whether we should be lowering council tax or not. I'm going to be looking at the practical aspects of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
Learning to swim is one of the best gifts you can give a child. I have had the privilege of swimming in the Hampstead Heath ponds, the Serpentine, Lake Bled, off the Isle of Skye and a good deal of the west coast, and one day I'm going to do a swimathon…
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Questions to the Trefnydd, Chief Whip and Cabinet Minister for Culture and Sport
6. Will the Cabinet Minister provide an update on the new national school swimming and water safety programme? OQ64701
, Legislation Committee
Papers to note
What just struck me on the Railways Bill was the reliance on the memorandum of understanding to such a high extent. Obviously, I understand that Mark is working within constraints that are difficult and it is difficult to have something set in stone. That's…
, Legislation Committee
Papers to note
We just need to build in some more time if that committee isn't meeting as often as it did—to build a bit more time in.
, Legislation Committee
Papers to note
Just to note, if I recall last week, one of the reasons that the letter regarding the organic pollutants was late was because of the committee—I may be wrong here—not sitting, or problems with that committee, and I note that that committee hasn't met, from…
, Legislation Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
I think this does raise concerns about how many others have been prepared in this way. If this has been done once, then, God knows, it could have been done many times.
, Legislation Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Yes, I do. On the fair market value, I still think that's quite undefined, because if you think about it, there are 22 different local authorities in Wales, and in Wales there are very different council tax bands and very different values. From Monmouthshire…
, Plenary
Short Debate: The importance of port infrastructure and maritime traffic to the Welsh economy
I have visited both the Port of Barry and the Port of Tyne, and the contrast is instructive. No two ports in the UK are the same. Some are privately owned and some by trusts. It is easy to assume one company runs most of them. That's not how it works. The…
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Family Drug and Alcohol Courts
I was three weeks old when I came into care in Newport. I was seven when I was adopted. So, when the Senedd talks about children whose parents cannot look after them, I am not talking about a policy area, I'm talking about the thing that decided my life…
, Legislation Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Can you remind me: the £4.4 million, does it come from the Welsh Government budget, or is it from the wider UK budget?
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
—no—rather than telling visitors that it's not worth the journey. I am told that Reform have been monitoring me very closely, including what I eat for lunch. I rather thought that effective opposition was about the governance of our roads, that is clearly not…
, Plenary
Reform UK Debate: Default 20 mph speed limit
For three years, the word was everywhere. It was in the first election pledge Reform made in Wales. It was on their Facebook page. One of their candidates said it to the camera while standing in front of a 50 mph sign. The word is 'blanket', and it is missing…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
Seven years ago, the BBC's The Capture imagined footage of a public figure fabricated convincingly enough to destroy them. It was dystopian and it was fiction then, but today all it takes is a free app and 90 seconds. A councillor in Kent told LBC this week…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
4. What legal advice has the Counsel General provided to the Welsh Government regarding the adequacy of Welsh electoral law in respect of artificially generated content in devolved elections? OQ64487
, Legislation Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
We're just waiting.
, Legislation Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
In that case, we will go into the private part of the session. So, this is item 6, motion under Standing Order 17.42(vi) and (ix) to resolve that we will exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Is everyone content to go into private? Fab. Yes…
, Legislation Committee
Papers to note
Does anyone have any comments or thoughts? Great. In that case, we can move on to the final bit of correspondence before we go into the private session. So, this is the correspondence from the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care, and these are regulations…
