Concise Minutes - Committee on Assembly Electoral Reform

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 4 - Tŷ Hywel

Meeting date: Monday, 21 October 2019

Meeting time: 11.01 - 12.46
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/6017

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Attendance

Category

Names

Assembly Members:

Dawn Bowden AM (Chair)

Huw Irranca-Davies AM

David J Rowlands AM

Witnesses:

Anna Daniel, Head of Strategic Transformation

Professor Laura McAllister, Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform

Committee Staff:

Helen Finlayson (Clerk)

Stephen Aldhouse (Second Clerk)

Sian Giddins (Deputy Clerk)

Gareth Pembridge (Legal Adviser)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1     The Chair welcomed Members to the first meeting of the Committee on Assembly Electoral Reform. Apologies were received from Delyth Jewell AM; there was no substitute.

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2       Committee remit

2.1     The Chair made a brief statement in respect of the Committee’s remit.

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3       Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting, and from the next two Committee meetings

3.1     The motion was agreed.

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4       Approach to Committee remit

4.1     The Committee agreed to use its next meeting to develop a strategic approach to its remit.

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5       Ways of working

5.1     The Committee considered and agreed its ways of working.

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6       Technical briefing on the work of the Expert Panel on Assembly Electoral Reform and the Assembly Commission's Assembly reform programme

6.1  The Committee received a technical briefing from Anna Daniel and Laura McAllister.

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