Meetings
Industrial Action: Organisation of Business
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Meeting: 13/03/2012 - Business Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 5)
Industrial Action - Impact on formal Assembly Business
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 2
Minutes:
The Business Committee gave further consideration to its contingency plan in the event of the industrial action on 28 March.
The Leader of the House indicated that the Government would bring forward Questions to Ministers to Tuesday 27 March.
William Graham said that his group’s preferred option would be to maintain all business on Wednesday, 28 March. The remaining Business Managers agreed that their preference would be to accommodate the 2 opposition debates in an extended plenary on Tuesday 27 March. The Leader of the House suggested that the meeting could start earlier than usual to accommodate these extra items of business.
Business Managers agreed that the debate on the Enterprise and Business Committee’s report and the Short Debate should be postponed until after the Easter recess.
The Business Committee also agreed that the Finance Committee should be allocated an alternative meeting slot.
The secretariat will prepare a draft Business Statement to reflect these discussions, for consideration at next week’s meeting.
Meeting: 22/11/2011 - Business Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)
Industrial Action: Organisation of Business
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 5
Minutes:
The Business Committee gave further consideration to its
contingency plan in the event of the industrial action on 30 November. Business Managers:
·
agreed that there would be no meeting on
Wednesday 30 November;
·
agreed that Plenary would start at 1pm on 6
December and at 12.30pm on 7 December;
·
noted the re-arrangement of Government business
for 29 November, 6 and 7 December; and
·
agreed to re-arrange
the items of Assembly business scheduled for 30 November on Tuesday 6 December
and Wednesday 7 December.
The Leader of the House indicated that the following oral
question scheduled for 30 November would be taken on Tuesday 29 November:
·
Questions to the Minister for Environment and
Sustainable Development (45 mins)
· Questions to the Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage (45 mins)
Meeting: 15/11/2011 - Business Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 5)
Industrial Action - Impact on formal Assembly Business
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 8
Minutes:
The Business Committee considered contingency options to
ensure that no planned Assembly business is lost in the event of the industrial
action on 30 November.
The government agreed to bring forward the following oral
questions to Tuesday 29 November:
·
Questions to the Minister for Environment and
Sustainable Development (45 mins)
·
Questions to the Minister for Housing,
Regeneration and Heritage (45 mins)
Business Managers agreed that their preferred option was to
extend the Plenary meetings on Tuesday 6 December and Wednesday 7 December in
order to accommodate the remaining items of Assembly business scheduled for 30
November. The Business Committee agreed to give further consideration to the
contingency plan at their next meeting.