Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Mike Hedges MS (Chair)
Alun Davies MS
Mark Isherwood MS
Adam Price MS
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Witnesses:
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Committee Staff:
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P Gareth Williams (Clerk)
Owain Davies (Second Clerk)
Tom Lewis-White (Second Clerk)
Gerallt Roberts (Second Clerk)
Jennifer Cottle (Legal Adviser)
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<AI1>
1
Introduction, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
There were no apologies or substitutions.
</AI1>
<AI2>
2
Instruments that raise no reporting
issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
</AI2>
<AI3>
2.1
SL(6)791 - The Housing Renewal Grants
(Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
was content.
</AI3>
<AI4>
2.2
SL(6)794 - The Tertiary Education and
Research (Wales) Act 2022 (Commencement No. 7, Transitory,
Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
was content.
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.3
SL(6)796 - The Inspection of Education
and Training (Wales) Regulations 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
was content.
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.4
SL(6)797 - The Infrastructure (Wales) Act
2024 (Amendment to Commencement Order No. 2) Order 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
was content.
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.5
SL(6)799 - The Senedd Cymru (Returning
Officers' Accounts) Order 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
was content.
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.6
SL(6)800 - The Welsh Language and
Education (Wales) Act 2025 (Commencement No.1 and Transitional and
Transitory Provision) Order 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
was content.
</AI8>
<AI9>
3
Instruments that raise issues to be
reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or
21.3
</AI9>
<AI10>
3.1
SL(6)790 - The Building etc. (Amendment)
(Wales) Regulations 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
Welsh Government response and agreed to report to the Senedd in
line with the reporting points identified.
</AI10>
<AI11>
3.2
SL(6)792 - The Fire and Rescue Services
(National Framework and Variation of Combination Schemes) (Wales)
Order 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
agreed to report to the Senedd in line with the reporting points
identified.
</AI11>
<AI12>
3.3
SL(6)793 - The National Health Service
(Performers Lists) (Wales) Regulations 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
agreed to report to the Senedd in line with the reporting points
identified.
</AI12>
<AI13>
3.4
SL(6)795 - The School Funding, Budget
Statements and Outturn Statements (Wales) Regulations
2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
Welsh Government response and agreed to report to the Senedd in
line with the reporting points identified.
</AI13>
<AI14>
3.5
SL(6)801 - The Town and Country Planning
(General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (Wales) Order
2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
Welsh Government response and agreed to report to the Senedd in
line with the reporting point identified.
</AI14>
<AI15>
3.6
SL(6)798 - The Senedd Cymru (Returning
Officers’ Charges) Order 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
agreed to report to the Senedd in line with the reporting points
identified.
</AI15>
<AI16>
3.7
SL(6)802 - The Elections and Elected
Bodies (Wales) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
Welsh Government response and agreed to report to the Senedd in
line with the reporting point identified.
</AI16>
<AI17>
3.8
SL(6)804 - The Allocation of Housing and
Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations
2026
The Committee considered the instrument and
agreed to report to the Senedd in line with the reporting point
identified.
</AI17>
<AI18>
4
Instruments that raise issues to be
reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 -
previously considered
</AI18>
<AI19>
4.1
SL(6)772 - The National Health Service
(General Dental Services Contracts and Patient Charges) (Wales)
Regulations 2026
The Committee noted the Welsh Government
response.
</AI19>
<AI20>
4.2
SL(6)778 - The National Health Service
(General Dental Services Contracts and Patient Charges) (Amendment)
(Wales) Regulations 2026
The Committee noted the Welsh Government
response.
</AI20>
<AI21>
4.3
SL(6)785 - The Digital Waste Tracking
(Wales) Regulations 2026
The Committee noted the Welsh Government
response.
</AI21>
<AI22>
4.4
SL(6)775 - The Political Parties Campaign
Expenditure (Senedd Elections) Code of Practice 2025 (Appointed
Day) (Wales) Order 2026
</AI22>
<AI23>
4.5
SL(6)776 - The Non-Party Campaigner
Campaign Expenditure (Senedd Elections) Code of Practice 2025
(Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2026
The Committee noted the Welsh Government
response.
</AI23>
<AI24>
4.6
SL(6)777 - The Individual Candidate
Election Expenses (Senedd Elections) Code of Practice 2025
(Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2026
The Committee noted the Welsh Government
response.
</AI24>
<AI25>
4.7
SL(6)782 - The Education Workforce
Council (Further Education Teacher Qualifications, Periods of
Absence from Work and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations
2026
The Committee noted the Welsh Government
response.
</AI25>
<AI26>
4.8
SL(6)783 - The Higher Education
(Qualifying Courses and Qualifying Persons) (Wales) Regulations
2026
</AI26>
<AI27>
5
Inter-Institutional Relations
Agreement
</AI27>
<AI28>
5.1
Correspondence from the Welsh Government:
Meetings of inter-ministerial groups
The Committee noted correspondence: from the
Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning in relation to a
meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group for Trade which took place
on 4 March 2026; and from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice,
Trefnydd and Chief Whip in relation to an upcoming meeting of the
Inter-Ministerial Group for Safety, Security and Migration.
</AI28>
<AI29>
5.2
Correspondence from the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs: The draft Mandatory Water Efficiency Labelling Regulations
2026
The Committee noted the letter from the Deputy
First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs.
</AI29>
<AI30>
6
Papers to note
</AI30>
<AI31>
6.1
Correspondence to the Business Committee:
Future Review of Standing Order 29
The Committee noted its outgoing
correspondence to the Business Committee.
</AI31>
<AI32>
6.2
Correspondence from the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: General scrutiny
follow-up
The Committee noted the letter from the Deputy
First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery.
</AI32>
<AI33>
6.3
Correspondence from the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
to the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee: Public
Office (Accountability) Bill
The Committee noted the letter from the
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet
Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs to the Public
Accounts and Public Administration Committee.
</AI33>
<AI34>
6.4
Correspondence from the Minister of State
for Courts and Legal Services: Cardiff Civil Justice
Centre
The Committee noted the letter from the
Minister of State for Courts and Legal
Services.
</AI34>
<AI35>
6.5
Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary
for Education: Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
The Committee noted the letter from the
Cabinet Secretary for
Education.
</AI35>
<AI36>
6.6
Correspondence from the Counsel General
and Minister for Delivery: Updated analysis of subordinate
legislation requiring correction
The Committee noted the letter from the
Counsel General and Minister for
Delivery.
</AI36>
<AI37>
6.7
Correspondence from the Welsh Government:
The Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on the
Welsh Government's Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Cyber
Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems)
Bill
The Committee noted the Welsh Government
response.
</AI37>
<AI38>
6.8
Correspondence from the European Affairs
Committee, House of Lords: Dynamic alignment inquiry
The Committee noted the letter from the
European Affairs Committee of the House
of Lords and agreed to respond.
</AI38>
<AI39>
7
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(vi) and
(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's
meeting
The motion was agreed.
</AI39>
<AI40>
8
Statutory Instruments laid but not
formally scrutinised by the Committee - Sixth Senedd
The Committee agreed its approach to
Statutory Instruments laid but not
formally scrutinised by the Committee, and agreed that the Chair
would sign off the report outside of Committee.
</AI40>
<AI41>
9
Legislative Consent Memoranda on the
Railways Bill: Draft report
The Committee agreed its draft report.
</AI41>
<AI42>
10
Supplementary Legislative Consent
Memorandum (Memorandum No. 4) on the Tobacco and Vapes
Bill
The Committee considered Memorandum No. 4 and
agreed not to report due to time constraints.
</AI42>
<AI43>
11
Supplementary Legislative Consent
Memoranda (Memorandum No. 2 and Memorandum No. 3) on the Public
Office (Accountability) Bill: Draft report
The Committee agreed to add a note to the
front page of its previously laid report to show that the report
relates to the version of Memorandum No. 3 which was laid on 27
January 2026 and subsequently withdrawn by the Welsh Government on
17 March 2026, after the Committee’s report was laid on 12
March 2026.
</AI43>
<AI44>
12
Legacy report
The Committee considered and agreed a revised
version of its legacy report.
</AI44>
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