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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Witnesses:
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Sarah Capstick, Welsh Local Government
Association (WLGA)
Ash Lister, Welsh Local Government Association
(WLGA)
Cathryn Morgan, Ceredigion County Council
Lee Wenham, City and County of Swansea
Council
Amira Evans, Welsh Government
Jane Peffers, Welsh Government
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Committee Staff:
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Rhys Morgan (Clerk)
Angharad Roche (Deputy Clerk)
Gwennan Hardy (Research Service)
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<AI1>
At its meeting on 6 October, the
Committee resolved to exclude the public from item 1 of its meeting
on 13 October 2025
</AI1>
<AI2>
1
Forward work programme - consideration of
upcoming streams of work
During this private item Members discussed the
forward work programme and considered the format that they would
like the Committee’s legacy report to take.
</AI2>
<AI3>
2
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
The Chair welcomed Members and witnesses to
the meeting.
Mick Antoniw MS gave apologies for item 8 on
the agenda.
No substitutions or declarations of interest
were made.
</AI3>
<AI4>
3
Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign
Language (Wales) Bill: evidence session nine
Members heard evidence from:
Councillor Ash Lister, Welsh Local Government
Association
Sarah Capstick, Welsh Local Government
Association
Lee Wenham, Swansea Council
Cathryn Morgan, Ceredigion County Council
</AI4>
<AI5>
4
Papers to note
Members noted the papers.
</AI5>
<AI6>
4.1
"Long-term national strategy, designing a
contemporary practice" - an article from the Heywood
Foundation
</AI6>
<AI7>
4.2
Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign
Language (Wales) Bill - consultation responses
</AI7>
<AI8>
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
</AI8>
<AI9>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi)
and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 6 and 7 of
this meeting
Members agreed the motion.
</AI9>
<AI10>
6
Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign
Language (Wales) Bill: consideration of the evidence
Members considered the evidence.
</AI10>
<AI11>
7
Reviewing Committee effectiveness in the
6th Senedd: consideration of response
Members considered a draft response.
</AI11>
<AI12>
8
Stage one scrutiny of the British Sign
Language (Wales) Bill: evidence session ten
Members heard evidence from:
Jane Hutt, MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Amira Evans, Head of Equalities, Welsh
Government
Jane Peffers, Head of British Sign Language
Policy, Welsh Government
</AI12>
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