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1,269 speeches and questions

2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
But do the regs before the Senedd, from a Senedd legislative perspective, facilitate potential future reuse, or targets for that, but that would still require, then, the UK Government to exempt?
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
And just in terms of the regs, I'm interested in the complexities here, because two legislatures are involved. So, am I right in thinking that targets for potential future reuse are included in the regs before the Senedd but that would be contingent upon a…
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Just on glass reuse, and I understand that the current exemption doesn't relate to that and that is something that you may take forward in the common framework discussion, I was told that industry offered to invest £100 million in a trial of glass reuse, and…
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
One of the ways in which the state can actually drive innovation is to use regulatory powers to set higher regulatory standards, which then actually create the conditions whereby you can develop clusters that respond to those standards. The circular economy…
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
If I could correct you there, as I pointed out, that's nothing to do with the EU, because it came from the 1930s. It was because of South Wales Needs a Plan, yes, and Hilary Marquand, which led to the creation of the assisted areas, predating the European…
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
And when you were having these conversations with the UK Government, did you also raise the related issue of the abolition of assisted area status, which some people think is related to the European Union, but it was the European Union that adopted it from…
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Okay, right. So, they're not going to repeal them. Did they give a reason as to why they want to retain them?
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
I understand the Welsh Government's position. What was their answer?
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
Just returning then to the UKIMA financial assistance powers that Alun Davies raised, you've said that you've said repeatedly that you want those powers repealed. What have UK Ministers said when you last raised it in relation to that?
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
So, even on the local growth fund, they're not listening to you completely and giving you the kind of discretion or flexibility that you would have had previously under a different framework and that you want now.
2 March 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery
In terms of the local growth fund, there's a lot of criticism of the rigid split between capital and revenue, and the overemphasis on capital compared to previous shared prosperity funding. So, are you of the view now that you've solved that problem in Wales…
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay, thank you very much. Diolch.
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I'm grateful for that. If you're able to give us a summary of the issues raised, that would be very useful, I'm sure. The final one from me: has the UK Government confirmed that it will meet the additional costs relating to the expansion of non-means-tested…
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
In relation to the proposed extension of clause 11 to devolved functions, could you share any information you have, insofar as you're able to, in terms of your discussions with Welsh public bodies about this proposed extension—what the views you have received…
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. I'm just wondering, then, if I could just ask you, in terms of the financial implications of clause 11, if it is extended to devolved matters, is that something that you have a revised assessment in relation to?
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes, and I suppose it’s double jeopardy if you might face a situation where someone is facing, potentially, prosecution on the same facts, though with different elements and context. So, is that something that you're aware of as an issue?
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. I'm grateful to you. Just returning to the issue that the Chair also touched upon, with the parallels and overlaps between the provisions around misleading statements in the Senedd accountability Bill and these provisions—I accept, obviously, the…
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I'd be grateful for that, but I’m just wondering on a purely factual level: has this question of privilege been raised with UK Ministers either at official or inter-ministerial level already?
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you for that clarification. Notwithstanding that, and obviously the Government, through tabling the new UK Government amendment 40, has indicated, in the UK Government, what their intention is. Welsh Ministers are, even as currently formulated, one of…
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, just to return to the earlier question that the Chair gave you in relation to the LCM, is it your intention to submit the LCM based on the Bill as it currently is, where clause 11, therefore, only at the moment because that Report Stage amendment has not…
26 February 2026Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
SLCM on the Public Office (Accountability) Bill: evidence session with Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I'd like to return, if I may, to clause 11 in the Bill, which relates to the new offence of misleading the public. And just to return to this question of the LCM, am I correct in thinking that the Government amendment that extends the ambit…
24 February 2026Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I regret—genuinely regret—that we are being asked to decide on this legislative consent motion without the fullest opportunity to scrutinise its implications for Wales. As we’ve heard, over 1,000 amendments have been tabled in the House of Lords, including…
24 February 2026Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion: The Victims and Courts Bill
Plaid Cymru will be supporting this motion today, although we continue to believe that the best way of delivering the general objectives of this Bill in Wales would be by devolving justice and policing powers fully to Wales, as is supported by a wealth of…
23 February 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
I was just going to say that I think it may be useful that Gareth does that work. And I think, possibly, we can return to this in our further discussions later. I think a general point I would make is that we've heard the proposers of the Bill saying that…
23 February 2026Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Chair, I was wondering if I, through you, could ask our clerk to provide any advice they are able to share in relation to this, really, the very issue that Alun raises, why—. Because we do have some time available to delay, to some degree, the decision, which…