Meeting Venue:
Committee Room 5
(Ty Hywel)
Meeting date: 13 October 2025
Meeting time: 13.30
For further information contact:
Rhys Morgan
Committee Clerk
0300 200
6565
SeneddEquality@senedd.wales
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** In addition to the breaks
published on the agenda there will also be periodic comfort breaks,
called by the Chair **
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At its meeting on 6 October, the
Committee resolved to exclude the public from item 1 of its meeting
on 13 October 2025
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Pre-meeting
(13:30-13:45)
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Private
session
(13:45-
14:15)
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1
Forward work programme - consideration of
upcoming streams of work
(13:45-14:15)
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Public
session
(14:15-
15:30)
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2
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
(14:15)
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3
Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign
Language (Wales) Bill: evidence session nine
(14:15-15:30)
(Pages 1 - 25)
Councillor Ash Lister, Welsh Local Government
Association
Sarah Capstick, Welsh Local Government
Association
Lee Wenham, Swansea Council
Cathryn Morgan, Ceredigion County Council
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4
Papers to note
(15:30)
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4.1 "Long-term national strategy, designing a
contemporary practice" - an article from the Heywood
Foundation
(Page 26)
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4.2 Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign Language
(Wales) Bill - consultation responses
(Pages 27 - 240)
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4.3 Correspondence to the Cabinet Secretary for Social
justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip from the Minister of State for
Policing and Crime Prevention regarding the use of Tasers on
children
(Pages 241 - 245)
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5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi)
and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 6 and 7 of
this meeting
(15:30)
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Private
session
(15:30-16:00)
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6
Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign
Language (Wales) Bill: consideration of the evidence
(15:30-15:45)
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7
Reviewing Committee effectiveness in the
6th Senedd: consideration of response
(15:45-15:55)
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Break
(15:55-16:00)
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Public
session
(16:00-17:00)
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8
Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign
Language (Wales) Bill: evidence session ten
(16:00-17:00)
Jane Hutt, MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
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