Agenda - Member Accountability Bill Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid – Committee Room 4, and videoconference via Zoom

Meeting date: 2 December 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Sarah Sargent

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddMAB@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Public meeting

(09.30 – 10.50)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

09.30                                                                                                               

 

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2       Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill - evidence session

09.30-10.45                                                                               (Pages 1 - 43)

Julie James MS, Counsel General and Minister for Delivery

Will Whiteley, Deputy Director, Senedd Reform, Welsh Government

Ryan Price, Head of Senedd Policy, Welsh Government

Anna Hind, Senior Lawyer, Legal Services, Welsh Government

 

Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill

Explanatory Memorandum

Statement of Policy Intent

 

Attached Documents:
Paper 1 - Briefing paper

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3       Papers to note

10.45-10.50                                                                             (Pages 44 - 47)

Attached Documents:
Paper 2 - Letter to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery from the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee: Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill (24 November 2025)
Paper 3 - Letter to the Business Committee: Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill – impact of the timetable on scrutiny (26 November 2025)

 

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4       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting, and from the committee's meetings on the 3rd, 9th  and 16th of December

                                                                                                                          

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Private meeting

(10.50 – 11.00)

 

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5       Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill - consideration of evidence

10.50-11.00                                                                                                    

 

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