, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Does that mean that—? Sorry, Andrew. Go on. Andrew.
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Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Llinos.
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Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Huw.
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Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay. Who would like to begin?
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Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay, Sam, you're content. Okay, thank you. We will move to Joel James. Joel.
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Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Diolch, Llinos. Sam.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Thank you, Huw. Sam.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Yes, please, Huw. Yes.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay, thank you for that, and we will move on then to Sam Rowlands. Sam.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay. Again, any of you want to add anything to that?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
No, okay. In terms of that electoral management board, then, are you content that the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru is the best body to host that electoral management board? Would you have any concerns that the Democracy and Boundary Commission…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay, Huw. Thank you for that. Anything to add from either Llinos or Andrew?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Yes, please, Huw.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay. Thanks, Andrew. We'll come back to those matters later on. Okay, at this stage, let me continue with some questions on the electoral management board and your thoughts on how having a statutory electoral management board would impact on local…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay. I'm not sure if we—. Andrew, do you want to just flesh out that area of variance, as you describe it, and your view on that?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Diolch yn fawr, Llinos. Andrew, are you content with what's been said or did you want to add anything?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay. Diolch yn fawr, Huw. Would either Llinos or Andrew like to add anything? Llinos.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Okay. Bore da, and thank you all very much for joining committee this morning. Perhaps I might begin with a few questions, before we turn to other committee members. Firstly, with regard to general principles of the proposed legislation, could you share with…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 4
Committee returns to public session for item 5 on our agenda today, which is our fourth evidence session on the Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill. I'm very pleased to welcome witnesses from the Welsh Local Government Association, joining us virtually…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 4 and 7 of the meeting
Item 3, then, is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the following items of this meeting: items 4 and 7. Is committee content to do so? I see that you are. We will, then, move into private session.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
We will move on, then, to item 2, which is papers to note. We have several before us today. The first is a letter from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee to the Minister for Climate Change regarding the Renting Homes (Wales) Act…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Okay. Welcome, everyone, to this meeting of the Local Government and Housing Committee. The first item on the agenda today is introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest. This meeting is being held in a hybrid format. Aside from the…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
I wonder, Minister, if we might have a Welsh Government statement on a policy of treating care experience as a protected characteristic. Local authorities, for example, can pass motions adopting that policy, and care experience could then be treated as a…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
The next item, then, is item 6, and that's a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting today. Are Members content to do so? I see that you are. We will then move into private session.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
Okay. Our next item today, then, item 5, is papers to note. We have three papers to note: two letters from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee relating to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill and the supplementary legislative…
