26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Okay. It was just a really simple, straightforward question. Under the current arrangements, any constituency that's twinned with Anglesey to form a Senedd constituency will have about 25,000 fewer voters than everywhere else. Do you think it's right that…
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
It's a really, really brief one.
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Can I ask just one final question?
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Okay. And with the current arrangements kicking in at the point of candidature, rather than on election, do you think there's an issue there? So, at the moment, we have rules around individuals who can stand for election and are not disqualified from becoming…
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
I have four minutes. Can I ask you about residency requirements, if that's okay? So, in the Bill, it proposes that in order to be both a candidate and a Member of the Senedd, you must live in Wales. I think everybody's got sympathy with that point. But some…
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Yes. Great.
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
—won't necessarily deliver a balanced Senedd without other action perhaps being taken. But you can assure us that this issue of ensuring gender zipping can still take place within a flexible list system, which is what you've already—?
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Yes. Laura's already answered the question about the fact that the proposed zipping arrangements—
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
But three would be enough, would it? Because the scenarios range from one to three committees.
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
And just in terms of the balance here, there are an additional five Ministers, potentially up to an additional seven Ministers, but on the parliamentary side, the scenarios that are set out suggest just an additional three committees of the Senedd in order to…
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
So, there'd have to be a clear business case, as it were, a justification for that increase.
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
So up to 19 is about right, or up to 17—could you just clarify that for me?
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Okay. But 17 is about right—you'd agree with that, would you, Laura?
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Ministers obviously could only introduce those regulations if there was a vote in the Senedd—that's what we're told—and of course it would take the number of Ministers from the current 12 up to 17 and then up to 19, potentially, with the vote. One thing that…
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
I wish you had, otherwise I wouldn't be asking you. Okay. We'll make sure that we refer to the report. Can I turn everybody's attention, then, to the issue of the number of Ministers that's proposed in this Bill? In your evidence, Alan Renwick, you made…
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Just another aspect of cost, obviously, is making this building fit for purpose and providing sufficient office space for bums on seats, as it were, and the kit that people might need. The Senedd Commission figures seem to be rather lower than you would…
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Yes, of course.
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Yes, I mean, just looking at the figures, they're, what, 38 per cent higher than you'd expect them to be, accounting for inflation. Okay—
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
So, your figures took into account a reduction in staffing levels, did they, for MSs?
26 Hydref 2023 , Reform Bill Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Panel Arbenigol ar Ddiwygio Etholiadol y Cynulliad
Can I just pick up on the costs issue, for a moment, if I may? You're right, this does influence how people feel about the proposals and whether they support their implementation or not. So, in your report in 2017, you indicated an upper cost end—which…
25 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Data perfformiad adrannau Damweiniau ac Achosion Brys
Rydym wedi cael enghreifftiau y prynhawn yma ohonom yn gweithio gyda'n gilydd i ddatgan bod yr Holodomor yn weithred o hil-laddiad, er enghraifft. Felly, ni chredaf ei bod yn deg awgrymu nad ydym yn gweithio gyda'n gilydd ar sail drawsbleidiol lle mae'n…
25 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Data perfformiad adrannau Damweiniau ac Achosion Brys
A yw'n digwydd mewn mannau eraill mewn gwledydd eraill? 'Na, nid yw'n digwydd', yw'r ateb, ac mae'r Coleg Brenhinol Meddygaeth Frys yn gwbl ymwybodol o hynny, a dyna pam nad yw beirniadu pobl ddeallus iawn sy'n feddygon yn edrych yn dda iawn, a dweud y gwir…
25 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Data perfformiad adrannau Damweiniau ac Achosion Brys
Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Rwyf wedi gwrando’n ofalus iawn ar y ddadl hon, ac mae’n rhaid imi ddweud fy mod yn synnu at ymateb y Gweinidog. Rydych wedi cymharu perfformiad adrannau argyfwng rhwng Cymru a Lloegr dro ar ôl tro, gan ddweud yn gyson fod Cymru’n…
25 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Aelodau o dan Reol Sefydlog 11.21(iv): Yr Holodomor
Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd, ac a gaf fi hefyd ddechrau drwy dalu teyrnged i waith Mick Antoniw—nid yn unig am ei rôl yma yn Llywodraeth Cymru a Senedd Cymru, ond am y rôl arweiniol y mae'n ei chwarae yn sicrhau bod llais pobl Wcráin yn cael ei glywed ar draws y…
