Agenda - Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - Senedd

Meeting date: Thursday, 6 April 2017

Meeting time: 09.00
For further information contact:

Naomi Stocks

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddCommunities@assembly.wales


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Pre-meeting (09.00 – 09.15)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

                                                                                                                          

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2       Inquiry into Human Rights in Wales - evidence session 1

(09.15 - 10.15)                                                                           (Pages 1 - 26)

 

Melanie Field, Executive Director, Wales and Corporate Strategy and Policy, Equality and Human Rights Commission

June Milligan, Equality and Human Rights Commission Commissioner and Chair of the Wales Committee

 

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3       Inquiry into Human Rights in Wales - evidence session 2

(10.15 - 11.15)                                                                         (Pages 27 - 58)

 

Dr Simon Hoffman, Associate Professor, College of Law and Criminology, Swansea University

 

Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin, Formerly Head of Bangor Law School and First Welsh Legislative Counsel 2007-2010

 

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4       Paper(s) to note

                                                                                                                          

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Additional information from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government in relation to the Agency Worker

                                                                                                 (Pages 59 - 60)

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Letter  to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children in relation to  Communities First Funding

                                                                                                 (Pages 61 - 62)

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Additional information  from the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children in relation to refugees and asylum seekers in Wales

                                                                                                 (Pages 63 - 64)

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

                                                                                                                          

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Break (11.15 - 11.30)

 

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6       Inquiry into Human Rights in Wales - consideration of evidence received under items 2 and 3

(11.30 - 11.45)                                                                                                

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7       Poverty in Wales: scoping paper

(11.45-12.00)                                                                           (Pages 65 - 67)

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