, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
All right. Sarah Murphy, would you like to come in?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
You're running out of time, Joel, and you've got—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
Thank you for that.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
Okay. Thank you very much for those initial comments, but I also want to reiterate what Paul said, which is, if you agree, just add anything where you think there's something additional to add, or where you disagree, importantly, as well, because we need to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
I beg your pardon, Leighton. Sorry.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
Ken, have you got any further questions, or we'll move on to Jane Dodds?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
Thank you. Paul Slevin, what's the perspective of Chambers Wales?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
Very good. It's good to hear such a positive response from the Institute of Directors. Ben Cottam, would you like to go next?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
Who's going to go first? Is that Richard?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill: evidence session 3—private sector employers
Welcome back to the deliberations of the Equality and Social Justice Committee, where we're continuing our scrutiny of the social partnership and public procurement Bill. I'm very pleased to welcome our representatives of private sector employers, and perhaps…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(vi) and (ix) to exclude the public from items 5 and 10
In the meantime, I wonder if I could ask Members to agree, under Standing Order 17.42, to exclude the public from the next item, item 5, and also for item 10 of the agenda, much later on this afternoon. I can see no disagreement.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Thank you very much indeed. Thank you both very much for your time and the energy with which you have answered our questions. In terms of the public watching today, we are now about to move into private session, but we will be resuming our scrutiny of the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Thank you, Yasmin. I'd now like to bring in Jane Dodds.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Thank you. Can I bring in Altaf Hussain at this point?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Okay. Back to Sioned Williams.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Okay. Thank you. That's very interesting and useful. Ken Skates has a question, following up on that.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Thank you. I'm going to hand over to one of the other Members who wants to ask you questions about your joint proposed role. Sioned Williams.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Thank you for that. Yasmin, in your written evidence, you highlighted the 'Invisible survivors: the long wait for justice' report that was published by the Halo Project, which you're the director of. Could you tell us how you've advised Jane Hutt how to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Thank you for that. Just picking up on one aspect of the strategy that is slightly more challenging for us in Wales, which is that policing is not a devolved responsibility to the Welsh Parliament and Welsh Ministers. The report published last Thursday by the…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Fine. Yasmin, would you like to just add your perspective on where we are at at the moment?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence
Now, I'd very much like to welcome both Johanna Robinson and Yasmin Khan to our pre-appointment hearing for the national adviser for violence against women, gender-based violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence. First of all, if I could ask both of you…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
Apologies. Just continuing the meeting of the Equality and Social Justice Committee, and I just wanted to ask Members to note the letter from the Minister for Social Justice regarding an update on recommendation 7 of our report, 'Debt and the pandemic'.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
If—[Inaudible.]—meeting for any reason, I propose—[Inaudible.]—.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. Welcome to the Equality and Social Justice Committee, where we've got a full agenda throughout the day. First of all, I'd just like to welcome everybody to the meeting, which is a bilingual meeting, being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, and there…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Violence against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Strategy 2022-26
Thank you very much for calling me. We heard lots of excellent good practice amongst public bodies—a range of them—in really taking seriously the ways in which they needed to refer people who were survivors of violence as migrants with no recourse to public…
