Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Meeting time: 13.30
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This meeting will be held via videoconference.
The Llywydd gives notice, in accordance with Standing Order 34.15, that the public are excluded from attending this Plenary meeting, as is required to protect public health. The meeting will continue to be broadcast live and the record of proceedings will be published as usual.
1 Questions to the First Minister
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call Party Leaders to ask questions without notice to the First Minister after Question 2.
2 Business Statement and Announcement
(30 mins)
View Business Statement and Announcement
3 Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on Covid-19
(45 mins)
4 Statement by the Minister for Economy: Stronger Regional Economies
(45 mins)
5 Statement by the Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport, and Chief Whip: Update on progress following the publication of ‘The Slave Trade and the British Empire: An audit of commemoration in Wales’
(45 mins)
Supporting Document
The
Slave Trade and the British Empire: an audit of commemoration in
Wales
6 Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: BlasCymru/TasteWales – promoting Welsh food and drink to the world
(45 mins)
7 Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Legal Aid and Access to Justice
(45 mins)
Supporting Document
Independent
Review of Criminal Legal Aid - Report
(publishing.service.gov.uk)
8 The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
(15 mins)
NDM7884 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5:
1. Approves that the draft The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 is made in accordance with the draft laid in the Table Office on 7 December 2021.
Supporting Documents
Explanatory
Memorandum
Report of
the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 12.24 to debate the following two items together but with separate votes
(30 mins)
9 Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 1
NDM7882 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6 agrees that provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, namely ‘Police covenant report’, ‘Increase in penalty for assault on emergency worker’, Part 2, Chapter 1 ‘Functions relating to serious violence’ (including ‘Functions relating to serious violence’, ‘Exercise of functions’, ‘Amendments to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 etc’, and ‘General’), Part 2, Chapter 2 ‘Offensive weapons homicide reviews’, ‘Extraction of information from electronic devices: investigations of crime etc’, ‘Application of section 36 to children and adults without capacity’, ‘Requirements for voluntary provision and agreement’, ‘Code of practice about the extraction of information’, ‘Regulations about the extraction of confidential information’, ‘Authorised persons’, ‘Increase in penalty for offences related to game etc’, and ‘Intentionally or recklessly causing public nuisance’, in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.
A Legislative Consent Memorandum was laid in Table Office on 28 May 2021 and Supplementary Legislative Consent Memoranda were laid in Table Office on 5 November 2021, 20 December 2021 and 7 January 2022 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.
A copy of the Bill can be found on the UK Parliament website:
Police,
Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Supporting Documents
Report
of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
(Memorandum No.1)
Report
of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
(Memorandum No.2)
Report of
the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee (Memorandum
No.3 and No.4)
10 Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 2
NDM7883 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6 agrees that provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, namely ‘Criminal damage to memorials: mode of trial’, ‘Imposing conditions on public processions’, ‘Imposing conditions on public assemblies’, ‘Imposing conditions on one-person protests’, ‘Offence relating to residing on land without consent in or with a vehicle’, ‘Amendments to existing powers’, and ‘Guidance on exercise of police powers in respect of trespassers on land etc’, in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.
A Legislative Consent Memorandum was laid in Table Office on 28 May 2021 and Supplementary Legislative Consent Memoranda were laid in Table Office on 5 November 2021, 20 December 2021 and 7 January 2022 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.
A copy of the Bill can be found on the UK Parliament website:
Police,
Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Supporting Documents
Report
of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
(Memorandum No.1)
Report
of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
(Memorandum No.2)
Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution
Committee(Memorandum No.3 and No.4)
11 Voting Time
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Wednesday, 19 January 2022