, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Okay. Thank you very much. In her evidence to the committee, Dr Fox from the Hansard Society suggested that your previous comments, Counsel General, I think, that the Bill seeks to rationalise and, essentially, codify—to use another technical term…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
I have nothing more to offer, but I did want to ask, as you went through this—I don't know if such a thing as a legal thesaurus exists—if you did consider any alternative options in terms of a term that would represent the same thing as 'annulment', but using…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Thank you. May I turn to this term of 'Senedd annulment procedure' that you've just referred to? In your view, is the word 'annulment' accessible and well understood?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Counsel General. Of course, the plural term 'prosesau' does actually exist in the Welsh language, and these additional processes exist more than only orally, because they're recognised and they're named, for example, in the handbook of the Welsh…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery on the Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill
Thank you very much, Chair, and good afternoon, Counsel General and everyone. Why does the Bill not include provision for what are often described as enhanced or superaffirmative procedures, such as duties to consult on draft SIs or laying instruments before…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
One of the other pledges in the LGBTQ+ action plan was to explore the establishment of a Welsh gender service for children and young people. You haven't done that so far, as a Government, and we heard recently, of course, in introducing a Welsh puberty…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Cabinet Secretary, you said that you look forward to seeing progress in the discussions on this issue. Have you had any discussions to date? We're over six months since the general election. Have you raised, for example, in discussing the devolution of youth…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Thankfully, we don't have the prayer problem. So, I suppose the issue that was common in both cases was that when the original Act giving powers to Ministers to amend the formulary of acceptable medicines for prescription purposes was created, then it was…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Could I ask another question? We recently—. Well, I moved a motion, actually, to annul some regulations that are related to the Welsh Government's puberty blocker ban, which was a version of similar regulations in England. There were two regulations there…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Great. No further questions from me, Chair.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Could I ask—? It relates partly to accessibility, although it is slightly broader than that. Something that this committee spends a lot of its time on is statutory instruments that are technically defective in some regard, and often—many times—the Government…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Dr Tucker, any comment on accessibility?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
I just wanted to ask you, both of you, in terms of the Bill's contribution to accessibility of Welsh law. Is there anything more that it could do to that effect? If it can't, if it doesn't, then don't worry.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Maybe as a permissive power linked with some kind of sifting committee process, it might add something to the mix.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
I'm interested—. The political context here is slightly different in terms of the art of the possible. If it were possible to convince an Executive to allow a general amendable statutory instrument procedure, would that be a bit of a deterrent against too…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
But your proposal of a conditional amendment process, or indeed the House of Lords version, which is a pause to rethink, might give space for those inter-governmental discussions to happen in that context.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Just going back, finally, Chair, if I may, to the issue of amendable statutory instruments, is there a complicating factor here in terms of the constitutional relationships, and the fact that in many cases in relation to delegated powers, because of our…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
How would you prevent the decision made on the proper procedure simply being made, or the decision-making process being captured, by the Executive, because of its majority position?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Could I just delve a little bit deeper into the question as to whether, if some method by which the legislature can express a proposal for refinement of the draft SI was accepted, that should be set out in statute? There are a small number, aren't there, of…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
To push back a little bit there, would you not accept that the context has changed because we have so much now in the way of delegated legislation, so much framework legislation, that actually there's an accountability gap now because of cleaving too closely…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Yes, please—if you could address that specifically.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Dr Tucker, do you have a view, particularly on this issue of amendable statutory instruments or amendable statutory instrument motions?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislation (Procedure, Publication and Repeals) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session on procedural arrangements for subordinate legislation
Yes, in the context of your reply just now, what innovations do you think the Bill could potentially introduce in procedure?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
I have no further questions, so thank you very much.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Supporting Ukrainians in Wales: evidence session with Welsh Government senior officials
Could I turn very briefly to the theme of community cohesion? How did the Welsh Government work with the Vale of Glamorgan Council, because this had been brought up specifically in the Senedd, to develop housing for Ukrainians on the former primary school…
