Meeting Venue:
Committee Room 5
(Ty Hywel)
Meeting date: Monday, 9 February 2026
Meeting time: 13.30 - 15.15
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15836
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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Derek Walker, Future Generations Commissioner
for Wales, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
Heledd Morgan, Future Generations Commissioner
for Wales
Helen Nelson, Future Generations Commissioner
for Wales
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Committee Staff:
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Mared Llwyd (Second Clerk)
Angharad Roche (Deputy Clerk)
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<AI1>
1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.
No apologies were received, nor any
declarations of interest made.
</AI1>
<AI2>
2
Annual scrutiny of the Future Generations
Commissioner for Wales
Members heard evidence from the following:
Derek Walker, Future Generations Commissioner
for Wales
Heledd Morgan, Director of Implementation and
Impact, Future Generations Commissioner’s Office
Helen Nelson, Director of Strategic Planning
and Climate & Nature, Future Generations Commissioner’s
Office
</AI2>
<AI3>
3
Papers to note
Members noted the papers.
In relation to item 3.3 Members agreed to
write to Ian Barrow, Executive Director of HM Prison and Probation
Service in Wales to ask when disaggregated data regarding the
number of children in Wales that are affected by parental
imprisonment might be available.
</AI3>
<AI4>
3.1
Correspondence to the Chair from
FareShare Cymru providing additional information following an oral
evidence session on 19 January 2026 regarding the inquiry into
access to healthy and affordable food
</AI4>
<AI5>
3.2
Correspondence to the Chair from Liz
Gordon, Sustainable Food Partnership Co-ordinator at Conwy Borough
council regarding the inquiry into access to healthy, nutritious
and affordable food
</AI5>
<AI6>
3.3
Correspondence to the Chair from Ian
Barrow, Executive Director HM Prison and Probation Service in Wales
and Community Accommodation Service regarding the number of
children in Wales that are affected by parental
imprisonment
</AI6>
<AI7>
3.4
Correspondence from the Chair to the
Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
regarding Parc Prison and Criminal Justice in Wales - 6 February
2026
</AI7>
<AI8>
4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to
resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of today's meeting
and for the entirety of the Committee's meeting on 23 February
2026
Members agreed the motion. The Committee's
meeting on 23 February 2026 will be held in private.
</AI8>
<AI9>
5
Annual scrutiny of the Future Generations
Commissioner for Wales: consideration of evidence
Members considered the evidence heard
today.
</AI9>
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