Agenda

This meeting will be held in a hybrid format, with some Members in the Chamber and others joining by video-conference.

The Presiding Officer will call party leaders to ask questions without notice to the First Minister after Question 2.

 

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NDM9213 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5, approves that the draft The Representation of the People (Absent Voting and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026 is made in accordance with the draft laid in the Table Office on 24 February 2026.

 

NDM9212 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5, approves that the draft The Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Act 2022 (Extension of Expiry Date) Regulations 2026 is made in accordance with the draft laid in the Table Office on 24 February 2026.

 

Supporting documents:

Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

 

NDM9186 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 20.30, approves the Second Supplementary Budget for the financial year 2025-26 laid in the Table Office on 24 February 2026.

Footnote:

In accordance with the relevant provisions contained in the Government of Wales Act 2006 and Standing Order 20, the Supplementary Budget comprises the following information:

(i) the written statement required under section 125(3) of the Government of Wales Act;

(ii) the resources agreed by the Treasury for the Welsh block budget for the financial year covered by the motion;

(iii) a reconciliation between the resources allocated to the Welsh block budget by the Treasury and the resources to be authorised for use in the motion;

(iv) a reconciliation between the estimated amounts to be paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund by the Secretary of State and the amounts to be authorised for payment out of the Fund in the motion;

(v) a reconciliation between the resources to be authorised under section 125(1)(a) and (b) of the Act and the amounts to be authorised for payment out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund under section 125(1)(c); and

(vi) details of any revisions to the information provided in accordance with Standing Orders 20.7 – 20.7B for the draft budget, as specified in the protocol agreed under the Standing Order 20.1A

The following additional information has been made available to Members:

·         a note explaining the main changes from previous plans.

 

NDM9211 Lynne Neagle (Torfaen)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6, agrees that provisions in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill in so far as they have regard to devolved matters, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

A Legislative Consent Memorandum was laid in Table Office on 24 March 2025 and Supplementary Legislative Consent Memoranda were laid in Table Office on 28 May 2025, 12 June 2025, 16 January 2026, and 10 March 2026, in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.

A copy of the Bill can be found on the UK Parliament website:

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

 

Supporting documents:

Reports of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee on memoranda nos.1,2 and 3.

Government response to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee reports on memoranda nos. 1,2 and 3.

Reports of the Children, Young People and Education Committee on memoranda nos.1, 2, 3 and no.4.

 

The amendments will be disposed of in the order which the sections and schedules to which they relate were set out in the motion under Standing Order 26.36 agreed by the Senedd on 10 March 2026.

 

The amendments have been grouped for the purposes of debate and the groupings will be debated as follows:

 

1. Trigger event A: courts to notify the Presiding Officer, and early termination of a recall poll

1, 2, 4 

 

2. Trigger event B: recall guidance

20, 10 

 

3. Regulations about recall polls

3 

 

4. Disqualification following removal of a Member of the Senedd following a recall poll

11 

 

5. Review of Part 1

21 

 

6. Standards of Conduct Committee

12, 18, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 

 

7. Report on applying code of conduct to conduct while a candidate in an election 

19 

 

8. Senedd Commissioner for Standards: eligibility

9 

 

9. Senedd Commissioner for Standards: investigations

17 

 

10. Senedd Commissioner for Standards - provision relating to the Welsh language

14, 15 

 

11. Conduct of Senedd Cymru elections

13

 

Supporting documents:

Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill (as amended at Stage 2)

Explanatory Memorandum

Marshalled list of amendments

Groupings of amendments

 

 

NDM9221 Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 26.47:

Approves the Prohibition of Greyhound Racing (Wales) Bill.

Prohibition of Greyhound Racing (Wales) Bill, as amended at Stage 3