, Legislation Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome back after the long recess. Apologies have been received from Kiera. Thank you to Leticia for stepping in. This meeting is being broadcast as normal on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. The Senedd operates through the…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
Diolch, Lywydd. I'm grateful to the Cabinet Minister for bringing this motion forward. Let me begin with a word about the scale of the task. This is one of seven legislative consent memoranda the Legislation Committee has considered, and we have been…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality: Update on Early Years Childcare and Play
I'd like to thank Kiera Marshall for her excellent question on capacity. The Minister has characterised these benches as focused on worst-case scenarios. I asked whether she'd modelled for very high demand, because planning for a policy that succeeds beyond…
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Legislation
Having worked in government, I know that arm's-length bodies most often fail on one thing, blurred accountability, where, when a target is missed, the Minister points to the agency and the agency points to the Minister. The First Minister has set out a…
, Legislation Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
We're about to go into the private part of the meeting. So, is everyone happy that we go into the private part of the meeting? That's great. So, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(vi) and (ix), I invite the committee to resolve to exclude the public from…
, Legislation Committee
Papers to note
Great. So, item 5.5 is a written statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women's Health, and this is on removing profit from the care of children who are looked after—implementation progress and next steps. So, this announces the…
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Papers to note
Yes. Can I just ask: this is the one where the despatch box commitment was made, isn't it?
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Papers to note
So, this is just papers to note. This is quite a quick one. This is outgoing correspondence. So, the committee will publish outgoing correspondence on a routine basis so that stakeholders are aware of matters that are being pursued by the committee. This…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
Does anyone have any comments? Anyone on screen? Great. In that case, we can move on.
, Legislation Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
In that case, we will move on to item 4, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21 or 21.3. This is the Education (School Day and School Year) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2026, and you would have received…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Great, we'll do that. Does anyone else have any more for any more? Great.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
But what we can do is we can write to the Welsh Government Minister to probe as to why there wasn't that thorough consultation, if you're content with that.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Would you say this is partly because it's been driven so much by the UK Government?
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
I think there was someone on screen that wanted to come in. I think I heard that. No-one, okay, great. Does anyone else have any other observations or comments on these? Yes.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
And Sarah might be able to provide some more—
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Amazing. Thank you, Kate. Does anyone have any comments, obviously taking into account that these are not being laid in Welsh as well? I think that's a major—[Interruption.] Yes.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Fab. Thank you, Kate. Does anyone have any observations on that? Fantastic. In that case, we can move on to item 3.4, which is the Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) (Amendment) Regulations 2026. This included a draft report and a letter from the Deputy…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Great. Thank you, Kate. Does anyone have any comments or observations on this? Fab. In that case, we can move on to item 3.3, which is the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026. Paper 3.3a was a draft report. This updates requirements around…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Yes. It's a really good point. Does anyone else have any other points on this? Fab. In that case, then we can move on to the next item, which is item 3.2, which is the Education (Student Support) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2026. You will have had the…
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Because I do think this is one of the things that is on the boundary between what we do and what another committee does, so I do agree it would be a good idea to write.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
I've spoken to Sarah, and this is something another committee may look into, if the Business Committee refers it to them. But is this something that they would definitely look at or—?
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Yes.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
I think that's a sensible approach, if everyone's content with that. That's great. Yes.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Does anyone have any comments? Yes.
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Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, then, if everyone's content, we can move on to the next item, which is the instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd, compared to the last one. This is 3.1, the Representation of the People (Electoral Registration without Applications)…
