, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Thank you for that. So, we have a more limited document, which is not published but internal. Then, there are other sets of guidance documents or policies in relation to specific areas outside of the handbook, presumably because you don't have the compendium…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
You said that you—and, presumably, the other senior civil servants—use the UK Cabinet manual, you refer to it a lot. Would it be correct to say that the Welsh Cabinet handbook reflects many of the provisions of the UK Cabinet manual? Or, if not, are there…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
One of the purposes of the UK Government's Cabinet manual was to increase transparency by, and I quote, 'shedding light on the inner workings of Government'. Would you accept, given what you have just said in terms of the Cabinet handbook, that we have less…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Would it be possible for this committee, given the usual assurances in our dealing with confidential information, as we often do, to see a copy of that Cabinet handbook?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Why is that an internal document only?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Session on the Cabinet Manual and Access Talks
Thank you very much, Chair. Bore da. If I understand you correctly, then, there isn't a Welsh Cabinet manual.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
Community transport organisations in my constituency have been providing an excellent service to those communities that could be underserved by major and traditional bus operators. Dolen Teifi, for example, serves many in Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, and…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport
4. What support is the Welsh Government offering to community transport organisations? OQ61151
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
I'd just point out to the Counsel General that 18 June will be the fourth formal opportunity for the Senedd to be discussing this proposal. This is what Parliaments do—they amend Government Bills, and probably we should do it more often. Does he not accept…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
In your comments last week at committee stage, you said that the Government had not yet produced a comprehensive, deep-delve—I think that was your phrase, Counsel General—legal analysis of the proposal. We have discussed it on many occasions now, but that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General
Diolch, Llywydd. Counsel General, you and I have had the opportunity on more than one occasion now to discuss the proposal to introduce a prohibition against deliberate deception by current and prospective Members of the Senedd. Now, that proposal is…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 18: Review of Act (Amendments 94, 95)
I move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 18: Review of Act (Amendments 94, 95)
Not moved.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 18: Review of Act (Amendments 94, 95)
I move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 18: Review of Act (Amendments 94, 95)
I move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 18: Review of Act (Amendments 94, 95)
I should just say very briefly that although there are two amendments in this group that relate—. In terms of the voting order under this group, I should say, which relate to the matter that we just discussed in the previous group, the disqualification…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 18: Review of Act (Amendments 94, 95)
Yes, exactly. And otherwise it will be time for the post-legislative scrutiny. The lead amendment in this group is simply to put on the face of the Bill post-legislative scrutiny. I'm a strong supporter of post-legislative scrutiny. I think it should be…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 18: Review of Act (Amendments 94, 95)
It's been a long day so—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 17: Disqualification from being a Member of Senedd Cymru or local government (Amendments 112, 113, 10, 114, 125, 126, 128, 129)
Move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 17: Disqualification from being a Member of Senedd Cymru or local government (Amendments 112, 113, 10, 114, 125, 126, 128, 129)
Move.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 17: Disqualification from being a Member of Senedd Cymru or local government (Amendments 112, 113, 10, 114, 125, 126, 128, 129)
Has it been moved?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 17: Disqualification from being a Member of Senedd Cymru or local government (Amendments 112, 113, 10, 114, 125, 126, 128, 129)
'Deal with' is not the same as—. The question is whether you will create an offence of deliberate deception. You're not—. I'm not trying to catch you out, I'm just—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 17: Disqualification from being a Member of Senedd Cymru or local government (Amendments 112, 113, 10, 114, 125, 126, 128, 129)
Is that a commitment to reform legislation that will include the offence of deliberate deception?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 17: Disqualification from being a Member of Senedd Cymru or local government (Amendments 112, 113, 10, 114, 125, 126, 128, 129)
I should just say that there are three amendments here. Amendment 125 is virtually identical to the amendment that was presented at an earlier stage, but in a different—at an earlier stage to a different Bill; you know what I mean. Amendments 126 and 128 are…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Group 17: Disqualification from being a Member of Senedd Cymru or local government (Amendments 112, 113, 10, 114, 125, 126, 128, 129)
And also the defences there are incredibly wide. It would even allow you to simply retract within a reasonable timescale and say, 'Look, okay, I got it wrong', and that would mean that the whole issue would go away. The success of this provision is not that…
