, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Heledd.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
But if the Senedd, in undertaking that review and looking at the annual reports, decided it wanted to take action, it would have to bring forward legislation. There are no regulations in place that will allow it to take this. This Bill does not allow them to…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
But on that last point, this goes back to the question from Sarah Murphy on the pre-appointment hearings that you stated you'd be interested to hear our views on, and other processes already in place. Pre-appointment hearings take place for some positions…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Okay. And moving on, therefore, and to the democracy and boundary commission, and to Sarah.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
But if you talk about even 50 per cent of that figure you've just quoted, that's a 200,000 increase in the electorate, which would have a major impact. So, is that 10 per cent, actually, trying to avoid excessive changes being required, which you're…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Can I just ask one further question then on that matter? You've talked about futureproofing, and you've mentioned yourself, now, the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill that's going through, which will provide automatic registration if it's successful…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Thank you for that, and welcome back—I think we've met you all in the first session. We go straight into questions, if that's okay. We are in a slightly different order than we would have been normally, but I'll lead off with Darren.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
We move on to item 2, and, before we start, Sarah Murphy, unfortunately, is stuck in traffic on the M4. She is scheduled to arrive, so she'll be a little bit late, but she is on her way. Can we go on to item 2 on the business, which is our evidence session…
, Reform Bill Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning. Can I welcome Members and the public to this morning's evidence session for the Reform Bill Committee? Before we go into our business today, can I first of all remind Members that the broadcast is live on Senedd.tv, and that a transcript of the…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
I now propose under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public for the remainder of today's meeting. Are Members content to do so? Therefore, we will now move into private session for the remainder of the meeting.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
Thank you. We have gone beyond the time, so I'm going to call a halt there. Can I thank you both for your attendance this morning? As you both will understand, you will get a copy of the transcript. If there are any factual inaccuracies, can you please let…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
A final question from me. It's nothing to do with Senedd reform, but back to financial issues. You've said this morning that everything is ring-fenced within the agreement. Therefore, I'm going to ask a simple question: when you do find underspends in areas…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
The reason I ask is that clearly, in your response to the committee, you highlighted the fact that—. A supermajority will be required to succeed in any reform, and that is one of the things you put forward in your consultation response to the previous…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
We've come to the end of the time allocated. I'm going to take the Chair's privilege and ask the two last questions. My colleagues on the Senedd Reform Bill Committee would be disappointed with me if I didn't raise that particular point. As we saw in the…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
Jack.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
I need to move on, because time is getting shorter and I've got a couple of areas I do want to cover. John Griffiths on public transport.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
I'm moving on then to Jenny Rathbone.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
Llyr Gruffydd.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
Moving on now, we'll go on to John Griffiths.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
And I appreciate that Rhun ap Iorwerth, obviously, has been involved in this only for the last six months and not the whole two-year period.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
Mark.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
So, what I'm saying is, you didn't look at including it, or look if you could add it into the agreement?
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
Can I, before Mark comes in—? It's back to my first question, in a sense. You've highlighted the fact that meals during the Christmas holidays, for example, was outside of the co-operation agreement, but the question is: would you rethink the co-operation…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
Mark.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Ministerial scrutiny session - the co-operation agreement
Thank you for that. Just to give clarification on the other two, they are the national care service, but we'll come on to that later on, and also the ongoing work to provide sustainable public services.
