, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Following on from that, just making the money available isn't necessarily—. And I think it's what you were driving at there, especially having worked with candidates with disabilities, wheelchair users, that sort of element. The financial assistance is more…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
But a service to help with the translation—that's what I meant.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Just briefly. You said it's a bilingual site. Will the onus be on the candidates to translate or will there be an automatic translation system?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Yes, thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Okay. Thank you very much. And, finally from me, has the Government given any consideration to how many of these pilots may be introduced after the Bill has been given Royal Assent, and could that place a burden on local authorities? And we'll probably go…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
And with voting for a pilot in the Senedd, that would be a simple majority.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
If I'm reading it correctly, Ministers would have to have due regard if a local authority gave an objection to a pilot. So, in practice, what would happen at that point? So, if the Welsh Ministers came up with a proposal for a pilot, the local authority said…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Okay. And the pilots that should be jointly—. The Electoral Commission would jointly propose pilots with local authorities. It also requires the Electoral Commission to evaluate the pamphlets. How would the independence of the Electoral Commission be…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Just looking more at the piloting powers that this Bill allows for, can you explain why the period for the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru to evaluate the pilot proposals is six weeks? Are you content that it's sufficient time?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Okay. Thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
So, the data, effectively, doesn't go into the public domain and is then removed; it stays private until—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
And is that register publicly available for that time, or not?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
You mentioned the 45 days there. Just correct me if I'm wrong. You'd add somebody to the register, they've got 45 days to say they don't want to be on the register or be anonymised. During that 45 days, is that published anywhere?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
So, it wouldn't come into force unless there was a positive vote for it.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
With regard to the secondary legislation that will be introduced as it comes along, what procedures would be used for that? Would it be the negative procedure or the affirmative or superaffirmative? What do you envisage happening with those?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Okay.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Evidence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Slightly circling back a little bit to the scrutiny element, the Electoral Commission is currently scrutinised by the Llywydd's Committee when it comes here, and I think that's named in legislation, I believe. Is that your intention with this, to have a named…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
Okay. Thank you very much. Diolch, Jack.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
It's just to see what can be done to help those people who've been negatively affected, and what scope there is to address some of that.
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
It would be just interesting to see—
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
Finally from me, if I can, have you come across any businesses or organisations that have changed the way they interact with your service users for the better? So, they've realised that it's negatively affecting this cohort of people by going cashless, and…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
And the importance is having a choice, I suppose, isn't it, rather than—
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
And, obviously, with your—. Do you see a difference between your service users, dependent on age?
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
It's interesting, and especially the bit that you said that we inherit it from our parents—our understanding. I'm just wondering, over time, as parents are more likely just to be using cards or phones or watches, are we going to see that trend develop? But I…
, Petitions Committee
Evidence session - P-06-1335 Welsh Government should take steps to ensure vulnerable adults without bank cards can pay with cash
Diolch. I just want to look at it from a slightly different angle, and not one I necessarily agree with, but if we assume that society's going towards cashless, from your organisation's point of view, and you're obviously helping people to manage their…
