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Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee |
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Committee Room 2 - Senedd |
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Meeting date: |
Wednesday, 9 January 2013 |
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Meeting time: |
09:00 - 11:26 |
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Concise Minutes: |
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Assembly Members: |
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Ann Jones (Chair) Peter Black Janet Finch-Saunders Mike Hedges Mark Isherwood Gwyn R Price Joyce Watson Lindsay Whittle Kirsty Williams |
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Witnesses: |
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Carl Sargeant, Minister for Local Government and Communities Frank Cuthbert, Head of Scrutiny, Democracy and Participation Team Louise Gibson, Lawyer, Welsh Government |
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Committee Staff: |
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Bethan Davies (Clerk) Leanne Hatcher (Deputy Clerk) Helen Finlayson (Clerk) Claire Griffiths (Deputy Clerk) |
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1. Introductions, apologies and substitutions
1.1 Apologies for absence were received from Rhodri Glyn Thomas and Ken Skates.
1.2 As Peter Black was the Member in Charge of the Regulated Mobile Home Sites (Wales) Bill, Kirsty Williams substituted for him during these items.
2. Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 1 (Stage 1)
2.1 The Committee received evidence from the Minister for Local Government and Communities, Carl Sargeant AM.
2.2 The Minister agreed to provide the Committee with further information on the Bill.
3. Regulated Mobile Home Sites (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session 9
3.1 The Committee took evidence from Peter Black AM, Member in charge of the Regulated Mobile Home Sites (Wales) Bill.
3.2 Action point: Peter Black AM agreed to send a definitive legal view on whether the Bill, as currently drafted, will raise issues under Article 1 of the First Protocol of the Convention of Human Rights by 16 January.
4. Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business
4.1 The motion was agreed.
5. Regulated Mobile Home Sites (Wales) Bill: Consideration of key issues
5.1 The Committee discussed the key issues and emphasised the areas they wished to make recommendations on.
6. Paper outlining options for scrutiny of the White Paper on Legislation to end violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence (Wales)
6.1 The Committee agreed to receive a factual briefing on the White Paper on 6 February.
7. Papers to note
Transcript
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