Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Meeting time: 13.30
This meeting can be
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This meeting was held in a virtual format, with Members joining by video-conference.
1 Questions to the First Minister
The item started at 13.30
Questions 1, 2 and 4 - 9 were asked. Question 3 was withdrawn. The Presiding Officer invited party leaders to ask questions to the First Minister after question 2.
2 Business Statement and Announcement
The item started at 14.31
3 Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Update on Covid-19
The item started at 14.43
4 Statement by the Minister for Economy: Stronger Regional Economies
The item started at 15.10
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’
The item started at 16.03
6 Statement by the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd: BlasCymru/TasteWales – promoting Welsh food and drink to the world
The item started at 16.37
7 Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Legal Aid and Access to Justice
The item started at 17.14
8 The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
The item started at 18.05
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
The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
A proposal under Standing Order 12.24 to debate items 9 and 10 together but with separate votes was agreed.
9 Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 1
The item started at 18.10
Voting on the motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
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
The result was as follows:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
42 |
0 |
12 |
54 |
The motion was agreed.
10 Legislative Consent Motion on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill: Motion 2
Voting on the motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
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
The result was as follows:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
14 |
0 |
40 |
54 |
The motion was not agreed.
In accordance with Standing Order 12.18, at 18.57 proceedings were suspended to allow a technical break before Voting Time.
11 Voting Time
The item started at 18.59
Votes Summary
The meeting concluded at 19.01
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Wednesday, 19 January 2022