Minutes

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Items
No. Item

1.

Introductions, apologies and substitutions

2.

Minutes of the previous meeting

Minutes:

The minutes for the meeting were agreed by the Committee for publication.

3.

Organisation of Business

3.1

This Week's Business

Minutes:

Tuesday

·         Voting Time will take place after the last item of business.

Wednesday

·         Voting Time will take place before the Short Debate.

3.2

Three Week Timetable of Government Business

Minutes:

Business Committee noted the 3 Week Timetable of Government Business.

3.3

Three Week Timetable of Assembly Business

Minutes:

Business Committee agreed to re-schedule the debate on the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee report: ‘Building Resilience, inquiry into non-public funding of the arts’ after half term

 

Business Committee determined the organisation of Assembly business and agreed to schedule the following items of business:

 

Wednesday 17 October 2018 –

·         Debate on the Standards of Conduct Committee report: Creating the Right Culture (60 mins) – postponed to 21 November

·         Time allocated to the Welsh Conservatives (60 mins)

 

Wednesday 24 October 2018 –

·         Time allocated to the Welsh Conservatives (60 mins)

·         Time allocated to Plaid Cymru (60 mins)

 

Wednesday 7 November 2018 –

·         Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee report: Targeted Funding to Improve Educational Outcomes (60 mins)

·         Time allocated to the Welsh Conservatives (60 mins)

·         Time allocated to the United Kingdom Independence Party (60 mins)

4.

Legislation

4.1

LCM on the Agriculture Bill

Minutes:

Business Managers agreed that Memorandum should be referred to the CLA, CCERA and EAAL Committees for consideration, and agreed a deadline of 14 December for the Committees to report.

5.

Committees

5.5

Request for a debate on a Petition

Minutes:

Business Managers agreed to schedule the debate but noted that there had been several requests for Plenary debates recently on petitions that have reached the threshold of 5000 signatures without the Petitions Committee having reported or carried out an inquiry on them.

 

The Llywydd informed the committee that further decisions were pending regarding changes to her determination about how signatures are collected.

 

5.1

Request from EIS to undertake an off-site visit

Minutes:

Business Managers considered the request and decided that unless the Committee needed to be in London for business at a set time that evening, they would rather that Committee Members caught a later train.

5.2

The allocation of committee places and chairs between groups

Minutes:

Business Managers deferred the discussion until next week’s meeting.