, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
That's to elect them there, but this is now to remove someone, isn't it?
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Is that an issue of concern to you, in terms of the fact that it would just be a straightforward ballot where someone could, effectively, be removed on a very, very low turnout? I mean, say you had a 5 per cent, 10 per cent turnout.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
So, if a dozen people turn out, I'm just thinking—. We do get some quite low turnouts, don't we?
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
So, basically, there would have to be an acceptance of that by the Scottish Parliament, and that then starts the whole process, so there is then a petition. And the petition, basically, as long as 10 per cent of the electorate across the area vote, then it…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Can I just ask about your equivalent to the standards committee? I apologise, I don't know what its full name is. Presumably, what would happen is an issue would go to your equivalent committee, they would decide that there had been a breach, it had reached…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
So, basically, the starting point is, I suppose, a recommendation from the equivalent of your standards committee that there's been a breach and this should be referred to a petition. So, I suppose there's an issue, firstly, in terms of the standards…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
So, if that—. So, Graham—. Oh, sorry, I beg your pardon.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
I beg your pardon.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
So, you might have a very low turnout, but if 10 per cent of that turnout—or whatever the turnout is—decide this should now go to a recall vote, you would then be asking people to come out a second time to vote, and that would be on a simple majority vote. Is…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Yes, how does that—? Can I just unpick that a little bit, because you're talking about two processes? You have to have, first of all—. There's a recommendation, there's a trigger, so the trigger can be the same whether you're constituency or whether you're…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Thanks for that. You're right—we're making changes; we're moving to a wholly proportional list system, so we won't have constituency elections in 2026. So, I suppose the area that we're really concerned with is your approach to the list system that you have…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 5
Thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 5
One of the big issues with data that is available is that it comes in different formats and there's no systematic or common system in terms of that, which means that the evaluation of that data is quite often very difficult to understand, and its use and…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 5
Thank you. You've covered a little bit of what I want to ask about, but just to perhaps expand on it, to go with the issue of data and monitoring. It's the extent to which education providers collect data. Clearly, from all the evidence you've been giving…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 4
Well, I think all the questions that I wanted to raise with regard to data, Chair, I think have actually been answered, so I don't really want to duplicate them, if that's okay.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 4
Just very quickly, on the role of the trade unions, who have played a big part in many of the key legislative changes, and so on, no-one has mentioned so far the importance of that role in an environment where, until recently, trade unions have been very…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 4
Thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 4
I just want to come back again on this point about incorporation. Not that I disagree with the desirability of incorporating, and there were clearly complications as to precisely how you incorporate some of the UN conventions, but on the basis that all those…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 4
Okay, thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 4
It was just on the point about the convention, the incorporation of the convention into Welsh law. On the basis that the convention, that the Welsh Government, indeed the Senedd, is required to comply fully with that convention legally in any event…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 3
Thank you very much.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 3
But I suppose the support that’s needed is also going to be determined, to some extent, by understanding what the nature of the problem is, the scale of the problem, and what the on-the-ground situation is. Just really, I suppose, your general comments as to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 3
And of course, an England-and-Wales level doesn’t really help you very much in terms of understanding the local situation. I just wonder if perhaps you can just outline a little bit some of the issues that maybe some smaller businesses face with regard to…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 3
Just a few questions, because obviously any policy decision and understanding of what is happening and what can be done and what the situation is is dependent on the data that we have. We do, of course, have a disability disparity unit—just, first of all…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Flooding—Preparing for winter
—that the maintenance has been carried out. Can I ask you what action is being taken to ensure that those levels of maintenance are maintained, and could you perhaps outline what levels of investment are taking place, particularly within the Rhondda Cynon Taf…
