26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, of course, the electoral management board will, of course, take the responsibility in respect of the functions set out within the Bill for Welsh elections. But, of course, this legislation is only in respect of Welsh elections. Reserved elections, that…
26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I think the report will go to the Senedd, so it will be a report that is tabled in Senedd for debate within the Senedd as a whole. I don't know whether that's the practice elsewhere et cetera, but that would be where Members have the direct ability to assess…
26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I hope it will. There will be engagement, of course, with stakeholders and so on, but I think the intention is—. And the only real way that these things can work, I think, most effectively, is by developing a modus of consensus and so on. I might perhaps go…
26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, I think the accountability—. There are two things we need to be very careful about. Firstly, that there is not political interference in the way in which elections are managed and the way boards operate, but clearly there has to be an overall…
26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
At the moment, what we do have is a voluntary arrangement of electoral registration officers [correction: regional returning officers] who come together to work collectively, and of course it has been for some time a consideration that this really needed to…
26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, I've given consideration to that, and I think it is fully compliant and compatible with the convention rights. You'll be aware that within that provision the automatic addition of people to the electoral register does have within this particular Bill…
26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I have specifically looked. It does engage article 10. Article 10 is, really, the provision in respect of freedom of expression, freedom to communicate and so on. But it is, of course, a qualified right, so, basically, as long as I can establish that it's…
26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Well, my consideration of competence, which I have a duty to, not only as the Member tabling the Bill and taking the Bill through the Senedd, but also in terms, I suppose, of my role as Counsel General as well, is to ensure that the Bill is within competence…
26 Hydref 2023 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Bil Etholiadau a Chyrff Etholedig (Cymru): Tystiolaeth gan y Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I'll ask them to introduce themselves.
25 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Aelodau o dan Reol Sefydlog 11.21(iv): Yr Holodomor
Mae erchyllterau cyfredol Putin yn Wcráin yn rhan o batrwm hirdymor o ormes Rwsia ar Wcráin, sy'n ymestyn yn ôl ddegawdau lawer, a chanrifoedd yn wir. Mae nodi Holodomor yn y ffordd hon yn taflu goleuni ar hyn. Bydd y digwyddiad yn rhoi cyfle i ailddatgan ein…
25 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Aelodau o dan Reol Sefydlog 11.21(iv): Yr Holodomor
Eleni rydym wedi trefnu digwyddiad yma yn y Senedd ar 25 Tachwedd a noddir yn garedig gan fy nghyd-Aelod Alun Davies. Bydd y digwyddiad yn cynnwys cyfraniad gan y Prif Weinidog, Gweinidogion Llywodraeth Cymru, llywodraeth leol, arweinwyr crefyddol Wcreinaidd…
25 Hydref 2023 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Aelodau o dan Reol Sefydlog 11.21(iv): Yr Holodomor
Diolch i Alun Davies, Darren Millar a Heledd Fychan am gyflwyno'r ddadl bwysig hon ar ran pob prif blaid wleidyddol yn y Senedd. Rwy'n credu bod y gefnogaeth drawsbleidiol hon yn dangos undod ein cefnogaeth i bobl Wcráin a'n gwrthsafiad i ymosodiad Rwsia. Ar…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
No, I think that's—. Listen, that's an element and that's a matter I'm sure the Senedd will do. It's one of those unknowns that, once the pairing is known, you'll know where it is. It also, I suppose, depends on where people actually live, where they actually…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Once the legislation is passed, it's officially empowered to actually do the pairing, but the pairing has to be by a particular date, doesn't it?
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
There are criteria, I think, that they have to take into account, but, you're right, it is a much more straightforward process.
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
It's obviously not going to be reviewing the boundaries per se, it's the pairing, isn't it, that they will be doing. Because for this, for 2026, we're using the parliamentary boundaries that are now established. The election after that—. Sorry, eight years—…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
The boundary commission, obviously, is a body that operates completely independently of Government. Within the assessment there are obviously transitional costs of £42,000 that are there, and there is, obviously, the cost of the boundary reviews that will be…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
What's interesting is that the Bill provides for a review, but a very early review, and that would be probably more to do with how the elections operated, the systems that were in place, the electoral system and so on. But certainly, as time goes on—and it…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I think the appropriate stage for that will obviously be during the stages of the legislation if there are further changes that we know about that we can then evaluate and add further information to. It may be that, for example, some of the imponderables…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Sorry—could you just say the last bit? At what point—?
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
It was purely that that was the recommendation of the special purpose committee, so therefore that is what we have worked on and translated into the legislation. And you're also right, aren't you, on the fact that, of course, what we're doing is basically…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I don't know if that helps. I don't know if—.
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
I think there are inevitably costs that relate to when the 2026 election comes in terms of how it is communicated, and of course, referring to the other Bill, we're looking at a platform of information and so on. So, those are the costs that actually relate…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
Obviously, they have to be addressed. Hopefully, that isn't something that will occur, because we think we have the best estimates. But, obviously, we engage with all those bodies that are engaged in the electoral process that we're responsible for to ensure…
18 Hydref 2023 , Finance Committee
Bil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a Gweinidog y Cyfansoddiad
The first thing is that the costs borne by local authorities in respect of elections are borne by the Welsh Government, so they are paid for. We do have the figures in respect of previous elections, and so on. The uncertainties predominantly flow from the…
