, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
Can I just ask about the WLGA? How are they co-ordinating best practice being shared? I know this is incredibly difficult, and we have problems in Wales in sharing best practice in every other area, so I'm not expecting you to be the ones who do share best…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Active Travel: evidence session with the Welsh Local Government Association
Diolch, Cadeirydd. What are the key capacity constraints in local government, and how could these be addressed?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Paper(s) to note
I think it’s absolutely right. As you’ve discovered this morning, five is a very useful number to have, and with more than 10 it starts to become unwieldly. So, yes, five to 10, good boundaries, very happy.
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: The Water (Special Measures) Bill
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. The committee reported on the Welsh Government's legislative consent memorandum on the Water (Special Measures) Bill yesterday. Last week, we wrote to the Cabinet Secretary to provide advance notice of two recommendations…
, Plenary
The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. The Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee considered these draft regulations last week. I thank the Cabinet Secretary for the response the committee received to its report. The committee's report contained a…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Access to Primary and Community Care Services
Primary care sees more people with health needs than any other part of the system. The share of the health budget being spent on primary and community care services has reduced. The health and care system must be radically refocused to put primary and…
, Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Restoring nature in Wales
I welcome the Government's statement. We are affected by two external factors. Climate change, warmer temperatures and changing weather patterns are disrupting the usual balance of nature, posing risks to all forms of life. It makes some areas unsuitable for…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(vi) to invite the committee to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Do Members agree? Yes.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Moving on now to papers to note. Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, the Food (Promotion and Placement) (Wales) Regulations 2025. The Cabinet Secretary’s letter informs us of his intention to lay regulations before the Senedd…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. Correspondence from the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: the Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
I'm happy. Is everybody else happy? Yes. Item 4.3, statutory instruments previously considered: a letter to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery. Members are invited to formally note the outgoing correspondence to the Counsel General in relation to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Yes, please. Item 4.2, the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2025. The committee considered this instrument at its meeting on 13 January and it laid its report on the same…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Yes. It'd be just good practice, in my opinion. Can we write to the Government and tell them that?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
Item 4, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, previously considered. The Official Controls (Import of High-Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. Do Members want to raise anything? No.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Can I welcome Members back to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee? The first item we've got after taking evidence is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. The Health Services (Provider…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
I forgot to tell you that, as you know, the transcript is coming. I have to say that every time, and I'm telling people who know it's coming.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Thank you very much. Can I suggest we break for five minutes?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
We've had lots of questions there. We've got nowhere near the number that we had intended. I normally ask at this stage if you could stay for an extra five minutes or so, but as we've only got two thirds of the way through the questions, that's not possible…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Thank you. Section 24(4) contains a further Henry VIII regulation-making power subject to the negative Senedd procedure. This power concerns reporting by principal councils on the use of the levy. Why was the negative procedure chosen?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Fine. Section 17(3)(a) contains a Henry VIII regulation-making power for the Welsh Ministers to amend section 17 in relation to annual return threshold amounts. It is subject to the negative Senedd procedure. Why did the Government conclude that this is the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Diolch. Of course, in Pembrokeshire they've got people doing it the other way round, haven't they, leaving Pembrokeshire on a Sunday evening or Monday morning and coming back on a Friday afternoon? They won't be picked up by it either, will they?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Okay, thank you. Adam is next.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Diolch.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session on the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill
Thank you.
