Meeting
Venue:
Presiding Officer’s office, 4th floor -
Tŷ Hywel
Meeting
date: 14 June 2016
Meeting
time: 08.30 -
09.02
Private
Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Committee Members:
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Elin Jones AM
(Chair)
Jane Hutt AM
Simon Thomas AM
Paul Davies AM
Mark Reckless AM
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Committee Staff:
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Aled Elwyn
Jones (Clerk)
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Others in attendance
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Ann Jones AM,
Deputy Presiding Officer
Siân
Wilkins, Head of Chamber and Committee Service
Christopher
Warner, Head of Policy and Legislation Committee Service
Peter
Greening, Welsh Government
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Introductions, apologies and substitutions
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<AI2>
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Minutes of the previous meeting
The minutes were revised and agreed by the
Committee for publication.
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<AI3>
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Organisation of Business - Business Committee
This Week’s Business
Tuesday
- The Cabinet Secretary for
Environment and Rural Affairs will be making a statement on
Building on our Recycling Success for a Circular Economy (30
mins)
- The Minister for Skills and
Science will be making a statement on Apprenticeships in Wales (30
mins)
- The Cabinet Secretary for
Communities and Children will be making a statement on Volunteering
Week (30 mins)
- The Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Local Government will be making a statement on the
report of the Working Group on the Welsh Language and Local
Government (30 mins)
- Voting Time will take place
after the last item of business.
- Plenary is unlikely to run
past 5.45pm.
Wednesday
- Motion to Elect Members to
a Committee (5 mins)
- The
Presiding Officer informed Business Managers that she intends to
allocate 3 minutes as opposed to the usual 5 minutes to Members
wishing to speak on the Individual Member Debate and requested an
early indication from groups of who would like to speak.
- The
Welsh Conservative Debate will be moved to before the Plaid Cymru
Debate.
- Voting
Time will take place before the Short Debate.
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Plenary is unlikely to run past 6.40pm.
Organisation of Business
- Business Managers agreed to
defer the scheduling of Assembly Business for Wednesday 6 July
until next week’s meeting.
- Business Committee
determined the organisation of Assembly business and agreed to
schedule the following items of business:
Wednesday 22 June 2016 –
Motion proposing the titles and remits of
committees (5 mins)
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Committees
Business Managers agreed to table a motion to
appoint members and chair of the interim Constitutional and
Legislative Affairs Committee for the agreement of the Assembly on
15 June and agreed that David Melding (Conservatives) should be
proposed as chair of the committee.
</AI4>
<AI5>
5
Budget Timetable
The Committee noted a letter from the Cabinet
Secretary for Finance and Local Government informing Business
Managers of his intention to table the first Supplementary Budget
Motion on 21 June and to move the motion on 12 July, allowing three
weeks for scrutiny by an Assembly Committee. Business Managers
agreed to table a motion on the titles and remits of committees on
22 June so that a committee can be established to consider the
Supplementary Budget.
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<AI6>
Any Other Business
The Presiding Officer
encouraged officials to future-proof the scheduling of business to
accommodate decisions the Business Committee are likely to be
making in up-coming meetings, to avoid any unnecessary delays.
Simon Thomas asked Jane
Hutt about the Government’s intention to table an LCM on the
Wales Bill. Jane Hutt informed Business Managers that she would
update the Committee at next week’s meeting.
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