Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Elin Jones MS (Chair)
Paul Davies MS
Heledd Fychan MS
Jane Hutt MS
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Committee Staff:
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Alun Davidson, Clerk
Steffan Lewis, Deputy Clerk
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Others in attendance:
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David Rees MS, Deputy Presiding Officer
Bethan Davies, Head of Chamber and Committee
Service
Helen Finlayson, Clerk for Legislative
Procedural Review
Lisa Griffiths, Procedures Clerk
Sophie Brighouse, Welsh Government
Anthony Cooper, Welsh Labour
Jennifer Ramsay, Welsh Conservatives
Francess Ifans, Plaid Cymru
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<AI1>
1
Introductions, apologies and
substitutions
The Llywydd welcomed Members to the meeting.
Apologies were received from Jane Dodds MS.
</AI1>
<AI2>
2
Minutes of the previous meeting held on
13 November 2025
The minutes of the previous meeting were
agreed.
</AI2>
<AI3>
3
Review of the Public Bill and Member Bill
processes
</AI3>
<AI4>
3.1
Member Bills
The Committee considered the paper and agreed
matters relating to the design of the name-only Member Bill ballot
procedure it had previously agreed to propose for use in the
Seventh Senedd, including:
- How Standing Orders provide for the number of
ballots to be held, the number of Members to be selected, and the
timing of ballots.
- The leave to proceed stage, including the
deadlines relating to the tabling and debating of motions seeking
the Senedd’s leave to introduce a Bill, the information a
Member seeking leave to introduce a Bill is required to provide,
and what implications (if any) one Member being denied leave to
proceed should have for the tabling or debate of a substantially
similar proposal by another Member.
- The deadline for introducing a Bill,
including whether to propose mechanisms for extending the deadline
in certain circumstances.
</AI4>
<AI5>
3.2
Limits on participation in committee
consideration of certain Bills
The Committee considered the paper and agreed
that it did not wish to give any further consideration to this
matter.
</AI5>
<AI6>
3.3
Member's Legislative Proposal
debates
The Committee considered the paper and
agreed:
- To ask the Llywydd to change the Guidance on
the proper conduct of Senedd business to replace the requirement
that time must be scheduled for Member’s Legislative Proposal
(“MLP”) debates with flexibility for the Seventh Senedd
Business Committee to schedule such debates if it wishes to do
so.
- That officials should provide advice on
whether changes to the name and/or description of MLP debates could
alleviate the potential for confusion between such debates and the
Member Bill process.
- To suggest that the Seventh Senedd Business
Committee considers whether further changes to MLP debates are
required.
</AI6>
<AI7>
4
Explanatory materials for
Bills
The Committee considered the paper and
agreed:
- To propose a change to Standing Orders to
require explanatory memorandums to include consideration of matters
relating to human rights, subject to agreement of specific wording
following further discussions between Senedd Commission and Welsh
Government officials.
- To defer a final decision on whether to
propose a change to Standing Orders to require explanatory
memorandums to include consideration of matters relating to the
implications of the UK Internal Market Act 2020 until the new
year.
- Not to propose any changes to the explanatory
memorandum requirements in relation to the other matters raised by
consultation respondents.
</AI7>
<AI8>
5
'further' and ‘Further’
amending stages for Bills
Members considered the paper and agreed:
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To recommend
that the Seventh Senedd considers matters relating to:
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- The purpose, interpretation and application
of procedures relating to further and Further amending stages;
- Technical issues that have been identified to
date regarding the Standing Orders relating to these stages;
- The Welsh Government’s proposal that
the application of such stages be broadened.
- That Senedd Commission and Welsh Government
officials should discuss how the existing further stage procedures
would be applied if required in the Sixth Senedd.
</AI8>
<AI9>
6
Registration of interests
The Committee considered and agreed the draft
Standing Orders report.
</AI9>
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