Concise Minutes - Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 1 - Senedd

Meeting date: Monday, 22 October 2018

Meeting time: 14.30 - 14.57
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5019


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Attendance

Category

Names

Assembly Members:

Mick Antoniw AM (Chair)

Mandy Jones AM

Lee Waters AM

Witnesses:

Committee Staff:

P Gareth Williams (Clerk)

Sarah Sargent (Second Clerk)

Ruth Hatton (Deputy Clerk)

Gareth Howells (Legal Adviser)

Katie Wyatt (Legal Adviser)

 

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1       Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Apologies were received from Dawn Bowden AM, Suzy Davies AM and Dai Lloyd AM.

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2       Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 but have implications as a result of the UK exiting the EU

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2.1   SL(5)259 - The Plant Health (Wales) Order 2018

The Committee considered the instrument and will report to the Assembly to highlight issues as a result of the UK exiting the EU.

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3       Welsh Government Written Statement: Accessibility of Welsh Law

The Committee noted the written statement.

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4       SL(5)257 - The Town and Village Greens (Landowner Statements) (Wales) Regulations 2018 - Correspondence

The Committee noted the correspondence with the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs.

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5       Paper(s) to note

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5.1   Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education regarding the School Organisation Code

The Committee noted the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and agreed to write again to seek further clarification on how Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been taken into account as part of the impact assessment.

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5.2   Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education regarding SL(5)239 - The Education (Student Loans) (Repayment) (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2018

The Committee noted the letter from the Cabinet Secretary.

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5.3   Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education regarding SL(5)240 – The Education (Student Support) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

The Committee noted the letter from the Cabinet Secretary.

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5.4   Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs regarding SL(5)248 – The Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Revocations) Regulations 2018

The Committee noted the letter from the Cabinet Secretary.

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5.5   Changes to Standing Orders relating to section 116C Orders in Council

The Committee noted the correspondence with the Leader of the House and Chief Whip.

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5.6   Letter from the Minister for Children, Older People and Social Care regarding the Childcare Funding (Wales) Bill

The Committee noted the letter from the Minister.

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6       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

The motion was agreed.

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7       Legislative Consent Memorandum: Agriculture Bill

The Committee discussed the Agriculture Bill and the Welsh Government’s LCM and agreed to pursue the invite to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs to give evidence at a future meeting.

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8       Scrutiny of proposed negative regulations made under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 - update

The Committee noted the process update for the scrutiny of proposed negative regulations to be made under the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

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9       UK governance-post Brexit - Speakers' conference - update

The Committee discussed the proposal of a speakers’ conference, first recommended in the Committee report on UK Governance post Brexit, and agreed to undertake further work.

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10   Interparliamentary Forum on Brexit: update on schedule for 25 October meeting

The committee noted the schedule for the Interparliamentary Forum on Brexit taking place on 25 October. 

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11   Act of Union Bill

The Committee discussed the briefing provided by the Research Service.

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