, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Heledd. It's your turn anyway, Heledd.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
If she's answered the question, we are tight on time.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Darren, did you want to come in?
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Heledd, you wanted to ask a question.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
We are aware of the public's views.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Jane.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Before you go on, Darren, Heledd wants to come in on this particular point.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Darren.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Thank you. Sorry, Alan, I interrupted you.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Can I ask a question on this, then, because 96 was above your previous limit? You've indicated that you were looking at futureproofing; we don't know how far away that might be yet. Have you considered, or did you consider, a combination of increasing the…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Okay, thank you. We will go into some of those details, obviously, in the questioning. I was more concerned with trying to find out if there's anything that you think the Bill missed an opportunity on, effectively, and rather than meeting all the…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
Yes, go on, Laura.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Evidence session with the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform
We move on to the first evidence session. Can I welcome our witnesses, Professor Laura McAllister, who was chair of the expert panel on Assembly electoral reform, and Professor Alan Renwick, who was a member of the expert panel on Senedd reform? Welcome. I'm…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Okay. Can I welcome Members and the public to this morning's meeting of the committee? We will be undertaking evidence sessions today, but before we do that, can I just do some housekeeping? Can I remind Members, please, to turn your mobile phones off or to…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting
Then we move on to the next item on the agenda, which is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting. Are Members content to do so? They are, therefore we will move into private session for the remainder of…
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Papers to Note
For Members, we go into item 3, which is papers to note, and there are two papers in our pack. The first is a technical note from the Welsh Government regarding the use of the HM Treasury discount rates and GDP deflators, and the second is a letter sent to…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Okay. Thank you very much.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
We have not covered the boundary reviews, the implications of the other Bill on automatic registration and what that means for the boundary reviews—votes for 2026 and 2030 elections, for example—if this goes through. And we haven't yet covered the reviews…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
We may well come back to you when you come back to us after we've had that session with them, as well. I'm going to have to call time, Darren. We appreciate that we've gone over time fractionally and that you have a very tight schedule. Perhaps next time we…
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Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
And we will have the opportunity to probe that with the Commission.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
We've reached the end of the session, but we started five minutes late, so I'm going to give Darren the last question, on costs. And it will have to be one question, Darren, simply because of timing.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Darren, if it is a short one, and one on cost.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Heledd on this one quickly.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Sarah.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill: Ministerial evidence session
Don't worry—you'll get a letter from us. [Laughter.]
