Agenda - Equality and Social Justice Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 4 (Ty Hywel)

Meeting date: 1 December 2025

Meeting time: 12.30
For further information contact:

Rhys Morgan

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddEquality@senedd.wales

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Pre-meeting

(12:30-13:00)

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Public meeting

(13:00-14:30)

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(13:00)                                                                                                             

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2       Post-legislative scrutiny of the Future Generations Act: session with Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice

(13:00-14:30)                                                                             (Pages 1 - 42)

Jane Hutt, MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

Rae Cornish, Deputy Director, Sustainable Futures, Welsh Government

Juliette Selby, Senior Sustainable Development Policy Manager, Welsh Government

 

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3       Papers to note

                                                                                                                          

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3.1   Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Chief Whip to the Future Generations Commissioner regarding the Future Generation Commissioners report: “Future Generations 2025”

                                                                                                 (Pages 43 - 56)

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3.2   Welsh Government response to the Committee's report on Social Cohesion: "Co-operation over Conflict - Wales must Act"

                                                                                                 (Pages 57 - 68)

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3.3   Snapshot of poverty in Autumn: a report from the Bevan Foundation

"Snapshot of poverty in Autumn"

 

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4       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of today's meeting and for the Committee's meeting on 8 December 2025

(14:30)                                                                                                             

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Private meeting

(14:30-14:45)

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5       Post-legislative scrutiny of the Future Generations Act: session with Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice: consideration of evidence

(14:30-14:45)                                                                                                  

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