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Operation of committees - Chairs' Forum

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

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Meeting: 09/02/2026 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Any Other Business

Meeting: 15/12/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Any Other Business

Meeting: 13/10/2025 - Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee (Item 9)

9 Chairs' Forum Review of Committee Effectiveness: Consideration of response

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The Committee agreed its response.

Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Correspondence from the Llywydd to the Chair regarding Committee effectiveness

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Correspondence from the First Minister of Wales to the Llywydd regarding Committee recommendations

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.1)

Consultation response from the Institute for Welsh Affairs

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.5)

Letter from the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery to the Chair of the Future Senedd Committee

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.4)

Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Research support for committees in the Seventh Senedd

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.2)

Consultation response from Natasha Asghar MS

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.6)

Letter from the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Reviewing Committee Effectiveness in the Sixth Senedd - relevant work of Business Committee

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Business Committee legislative reviews: Virtual participation in proceedings

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.7)

Letter from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery

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Meeting: 29/09/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.3)

Letter from the First Minister

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Meeting: 09/06/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Wales COVID-19 Inquiry Special Purpose Committee

Meeting: 09/06/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Declaration of interests

Meeting: 09/06/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Gender-sensitive parliament audit

Meeting: 09/06/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 7.1)

Review of the legislative scrutiny processes for Public Bills, and Member Bills

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Meeting: 31/03/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Monitoring Evidence Diversity

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Meeting: 31/03/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Business Committee reviews of the legislative scrutiny process for Public Bills: Chairs' views

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Meeting: 17/02/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Letter from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

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Meeting: 17/02/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

The social media landscape

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Meeting: 17/02/2025 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Future Senedd Committee request for Chairs' Forum view on the threshold for quorum in committee meetings

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Meeting: 02/12/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Job sharing for Committee Chairs Consultation

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Meeting: 02/12/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Any Other Business

Meeting: 02/12/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Interparliamentary update

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Meeting: 02/12/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Update on the Future Senedd Committee

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Meeting: 08/07/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Job sharing for Committee Chairs

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Meeting: 08/07/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Promoting the use of the Welsh Language in Committees

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Meeting: 08/07/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Interparliamentary update

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Meeting: 20/05/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Interparliamentary update

Meeting: 20/05/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Confidentiality of Committee Papers

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Meeting: 20/05/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

The Senedd's Knowledge Exchange Programme

Meeting: 29/01/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Business Continuity

Meeting: 29/01/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Guidance on Virtual and Hybrid Proceedings

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Meeting: 29/01/2024 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Interparliamentary update

Meeting: 11/12/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Update from the Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

Meeting: 11/12/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Interparliamentary update

Meeting: 11/12/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Travel and subsistence for Committees

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Meeting: 11/12/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 and UK-wide common policy frameworks

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Meeting: 23/10/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Letter from the Chair of the Finance Committee

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Meeting: 23/10/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Interparliamentary Update

Meeting: 23/10/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Impact of In-Year Budget Savings on Committees

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Meeting: 03/07/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 7.)

Scrutiny of First Minister Committee - update 7 July meeting

Meeting: 03/07/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Co-Chairing update

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Meeting: 03/07/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Security protocol for dealing with disruption in the public galleries of plenary and committees

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Meeting: 03/07/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Proposal for providing advance (embargoed) Committee reports to Members/groups

Meeting: 15/05/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Chairing hybrid committee meetings

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Meeting: 15/05/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Any Other Business

Meeting: 15/05/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Interparliamentary updates

Meeting: 15/05/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Committee Engagement

An update from Arwyn Jones, Director of Communications and Engagement.

Meeting: 27/03/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Pre-appointment hearings

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Meeting: 27/03/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Interparliamentary updates

Meeting: 27/03/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Chairing hybrid committee meetings

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Meeting: 27/03/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Retained European Union Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

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Meeting: 06/02/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

Ministerial engagement (main item)

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Meeting: 06/02/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Letter from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee - post-legislative scrutiny

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Meeting: 06/02/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Interparliamentary update

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Meeting: 06/02/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 7.)

Engagement with the Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister

Meeting: 06/02/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Letter from the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee - mental health inequalities report

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Meeting: 06/02/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.3)

Next steps

Meeting: 06/02/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.1)

Experience of the guidance on virtual and hybrid proceedings

Meeting: 06/02/2023 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.2)

Chairs' expectations

Meeting: 05/12/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Intraparliamentary update

Meeting: 05/12/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 3.)

International Parliamentary Strategy

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Meeting: 05/12/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.2)

General feedback on Ministers' attendance at Committees

Meeting: 05/12/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.1)

Update on letter from Ministers for Health and Social Services

Meeting: 05/12/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Feedback on Ministerial Scrutiny

Meeting: 05/12/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Pre-appointment hearings

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Meeting: 27/10/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Ministerial scrutiny updates

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Meeting: 27/10/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Guidance on hybrid and virtual proceedings

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Meeting: 26/05/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Interparliamentary Relations: Observers of the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly, and membership of the Interparliamentary Forum

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Meeting: 17/02/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Ethnicity and use of the term B.A.M.E

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Meeting: 17/02/2022 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Update on interparliamentary relations and constitutional matters

Meeting: 16/12/2021 - Chairs' Forum (Item 6.)

Update on interparliamentary relations

Meeting: 16/12/2021 - Chairs' Forum (Item 5.)

Committee scrutiny of Legislative Consent Memorandums

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Meeting: 16/12/2021 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Member engagement with committee business

Meeting: 21/10/2021 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

Standards of Conduct and the role of committee Chairs

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Meeting: 01/10/2021 - Chairs' Forum (Item 2.)

2. Key responsibilities of committee Chairs

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Meeting: 01/10/2021 - Chairs' Forum (Item 4.)

4. Return to the estate

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