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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
Obviously, the Bill focuses on women. I understand what you're saying—there's a wider diversity issue. And that will come up in our discussion.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
Thank you. And we'll now move into questions straight away, and I'll start with Darren.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
And Janet.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Senedd Women's Caucus
Can I welcome members and the public back to this morning's evidence session? And we go into our final evidence this morning, where we have representatives from the Senedd women's caucus with us, and, for the record, we have Janet Finch-Saunders online. So…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
We will now move into private session for a short break and we'll reconvene at 11:30 for the next session.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Okay. Thank you. With that, we've come to the end of our time, so can I thank you very much for your evidence session this morning? You will receive a copy of the transcript. If there are any factual inaccuracies, could you please let the team know as soon as…
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
So, in a sense, on section 106 of the Equality Act, which requires parties to actually produce data on diversity and needs to be enacted by a Minister of the Government, and the UK Government at this stage, you believe that that should actually be now…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Darren, I'll give you the last question.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Sarah, you had a supplementary.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Okay. Moving on, but, just for clarity purposes, I think, in your answer, you refer to the Llywydd referring to self-identification in her comments. She hasn't; she just referred to the competency issue of the Bill and made no comment on se…
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Jane.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
I need to move on.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
We'll move on to questions from Darren.
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Yes, just the Mexico one. Okay. Thank you. Heledd—is it on this point?
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Just to have clarity for the question, there's the example you gave as Mexico—. I take the Scottish gender recognition reform Bill as a separate issue. I understand what you're saying there. But, at the moment, you don't have any other evidence where quotas…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Jane, did you want to ask a supplementary?
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Okay, thank you. Sarah.
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Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Okay, so just for clarity, again, the position you take is—. The question is: is the use of quotas an appropriate mechanism to provide a greater gender balance within the Senedd, and, if it is, clearly, your view is this Bill doesn't provide for a wider—?…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Okay, thank you. Can I just perhaps start with a simple question? Do you think legislative quotas will work or will not work, based upon your interpretation of the Equality Act 2010?
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Okay. But just for clarity—and I just want to make this clear—that's not separate legal advice you've sought on the particular Bill?
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Thank you for that. And can I thank WRN for their written evidence, which we obviously have considered and will be considering, and, as a consequence, we have some further questions we would like to expand upon. Two questions from myself, before I ask…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with the Women's Rights Network
Good morning. Can I welcome Members and the public back to this morning's meeting of the committee, and to our next evidence session? And we now move into the second session, in which we have representatives from the Women's Rights Network, and can I start by…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Okay. We've come to the end of our time, so can I thank you all for your participation this morning? As you will be aware, you will receive copies of the transcript. If you identify any factual inaccuracies, can you please let the clerking team know as soon…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Okay. I'm going to ask the very last question. We've come to the end of our time, but just to ask Jess, and only Jess: the sanctions in the Bill, are they sufficient? Because, clearly, a lot of the sanctions that we see elsewhere are focused on financial…
, Reform Bill Committee
Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence session with Diverse5050
Before I ask Darren for a supplementary, just for the record, the panel that came last week were members of the political parties panel, in which smaller parties are not represented on that panel, and we have written to smaller parties for their consideration…
