, Plenary
The Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. We considered these draft regulations on 29 April, and our report is available on today’s agenda. Our report contains one merits reporting point. This point highlights that a previous version of these regulations was considered by the…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, it's been reported that the Welsh Government has been subject to a significant hack by a so-called rogue actor in the last few weeks. Are you able to confirm or publish what information has been compromised and what steps the Welsh Government is…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Now, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42, I invite the committee to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Do Members agree? They do. We will now move into private session. Diolch.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
So, moving on to item 4, we have correspondence and papers to note. At item 4.1, we have the Welsh Government's supplementary legislative consent memorandum, memorandum No. 3, on the Victims and Prisoners Bill, which was laid last week, on 30 April. Members…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
At item 3, we have notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. So, at item 3.1, we have some letters from the Welsh Government in relation to various inter-ministerial group meetings. Firstly, we have a letter from the…
, 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
Now we're going to move on to item 2. Members will know that one of our standing items is to look at Welsh Government responses that are received after we have reported to the Senedd on instruments that raise issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. There…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da. Welcome to this meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. As a reminder, the meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. Aside from the procedural adaptations for…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you very much. Thank you, Chair.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
I just want to ask one more question, if that's okay, Chair. Obviously, you kind of touched on this a little bit before, about there have been concerns raised about what if parties—the smaller parties, really—can't find enough women to stand. The Fawcett…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Okay. Thank you very much.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Okay. Thank you. Yes, the AEA, again, has said that confidence in the democratic process could be affected unless that is extremely clear, particularly the impact of a candidate withdrawing or dying during the election process or timetable. So, you are…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Just another question on this. My understanding is that the current conduct Order, though, doesn't include the impact of the withdrawal of candidates after nomination on compliance with the quota rules or the impact of vacancies that occur during a Senedd…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you. Just—
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you. Obviously, in this, then, we've discussed a couple of times the conduct Order, which is due to be published in the autumn and, as you said to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee on Monday, that's going to be about a 250-page…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Of course. They've also said, though, that the electoral timetable is a barrier to the implementation of the Bill. Their submission says that, for example, checking for gender quota and placement criteria requires an additional three working days in the…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you. I suppose, though, already, all the things that you laid out, then, if one of those got delayed—and there are many reasons why even one of those parts could get delayed—what we’re hearing from the Association of Electoral Administrators is that it…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Yes, okay, thank you. The Association of Electoral Administrators have said that they will need clear and unambiguous secondary legislation setting out the details of new processes being laid before May 2025, and they add that they will need to be accompanied…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you, all, for being here this morning. This morning? Yes, it's still morning. I'm going to ask some questions now about implementation. We've touched on some already, but I'm going to get into, basically, the evidence that…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
At item 9, we have papers to note, and there are a few items in this section today. At item 9.1, we have correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office in relation to the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify Act) 2022…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
And, at item 8, we have notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. So, at item 8.1, we have a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language in relation to a meeting of the Interministerial…
, 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. Do Members have any comments or observations? No. Thank you.
, 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
And then moving on to item 7, we have instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, which have been previously considered by us. So, item 7.1 is SL(6)477, the Building Safety Act 2022 (Commencement No. 5 and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Excellent. Thank you very much. Do Members have any comments or observations? No. And, then, are we happy to agree the reporting points? Yes. Thank you very much.
, 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. An important point to note. Do Members have any comments or observations? No. Are we happy to agree the reporting points? Diolch. item 6.3 is a draft affirmative resolution instrument. This is SL(6)481, the Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees)…
, 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 very much. Do Members have any comments or observations? I can see that's a 'no'. So, are we happy to agree the reporting points? Yes. Thank you very much. And at item 6.2, we have SL(6)480, the Education (Student Support) (Postgraduate Master's…
