Meeting Venue:
Committee Room 3
(Senedd)
Meeting date: Monday, 17 November 2025
Meeting time: 13.30 - 15.00
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15419
Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Jenny Rathbone MS (Chair)
Mick Antoniw MS
Jane Dodds MS
Altaf Hussain MS
Julie Morgan MS
Sioned Williams MS
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Committee Staff:
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Rhys Morgan (Clerk)
Angharad Roche (Deputy Clerk)
Masudah Ali
Gwennan Hardy
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1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.
No apologies were received nor any
declarations of interest.
</AI1>
<AI2>
2
Papers to note
Members noted the papers.
</AI2>
<AI3>
2.1
Correspondence to the Chair from Public
Health Wales regarding policy priorities to inform the development
of the Equality and Social Justice Committee’s Sixth Senedd
legacy report
</AI3>
<AI4>
2.2
Correspondence to the Chair from the
Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
regarding welcome tickets for asylum seekers
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.3
Correspondence from Sir Stephen Timms,
Department for Work and Pensions to the Chair regarding guidance
under the British Sign Language Act 2022
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.4
Correspondence from Dr Rob Jones, Cardiff
University, to the Chair regarding the prisons and imprisonment
fact file
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.5
Correspondence to the Legislation,
Justice and the Constitution Committee from the Deputy First
Minister regarding annual reports of the Inter-governmental
relations secretariat
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.6
Consultation response from Audit Wales
regarding Post legislative scrutiny of the Well-being of Future
Generations Act
</AI8>
<AI9>
3
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi)
and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder
of today's meeting and for any items where the Committee's draft
report on the British Sign Language (Wales) Bill is under
consideration at its meeting on the 24 November
Members agreed the motion.
</AI9>
<AI10>
4
British Sign Language (Wales )Bill:
consideration of draft report
Members considered the draft report and made a
small number of minor revisions. The draft report will be
circulated for Members to agree outside of Committee.
</AI10>
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