Concise Minutes - Equality and Social Justice Committee


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


 

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Attendance

Category

Names

Members of the Senedd:

Jenny Rathbone MS (Chair)

Mick Antoniw MS

Jane Dodds MS

Altaf Hussain MS

Julie Morgan MS

Sioned Williams MS

Witnesses:

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

Committee Staff:

Mared Llwyd (Second Clerk)

Angharad Roche (Deputy Clerk)

 

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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5       Annual scrutiny of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales: consideration of evidence

Members considered the evidence heard today.

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