Agenda and minutes
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Introductions, apologies and substitutions |
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Minutes of the previous meeting Minutes: The
minutes for the meeting were agreed by the Committee for publication. |
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Organisation of Business |
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This Week's Business Minutes: Tuesday ·
The
Leader of the House will be answering FMQs on behalf of the First Minister
today in his absence ·
The
Llywydd raised the issue of Ministers making overly long statements in Plenary
which can take up over a third of the allocated time for that item. The Llywydd
reminded the Leader of the House of the
convention that Ministers statements be no longer than 10 minutes. ·
Voting
Time will take place after the last item of business Wednesday ·
Voting
Time will take place before the short debate. |
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Three Week Timetable of Government Business Minutes: The Leader of the House explained that the
Government are still not in a position to schedule M4 debate as yet. It is
still possible it could be scheduled before Christmas. Business Committee noted
the 3 Week Timetable of Government Business. |
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Three Week Timetable of Assembly Business Minutes: Business Committee determined
the organisation of Assembly business and agreed to schedule the following
items of business: Wednesday
5 December 2018 - ·
Debate on the Standards of Conduct
Committee's Report 03-18 to the Assembly under Standing Order 22.9 (15
mins) Wednesday 9
January 2019 – ·
Debate on the Finance Committee report: The
Cost of Caring for an Ageing Population (60 mins) ·
Debate on the Economy, Infrastructure and
Skills Committee report: State of the Roads in Wales (60 mins)
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Legislation |
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Timetable for consideration of the Legislation (Wales) Bill Minutes: Business
Managers confirmed their in principle decision of 13 November to refer the
Legislation (Wales) Bill to the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs
Committee for Stage 1 consideration, and agreed the deadline for the Stage 1
Committee to report by as 22 March 2019 and the deadline for the completion of
Stage 2 Committee proceedings as 24 May 2019. Business
Managers also agreed that the committee could be flexible in when it meets
during the period of the Bill’s consideration. |
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Assembly Business |
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Review of Oral Assembly Questions Minutes: There
was general support among Business Managers for Leaders and Spokespeople to
keep their questions short, but less so for setting a specific time limit to
ask their three questions. There was also support among Business Managers for
reminding Spokespeople that the purpose of having three questions is that they
develop a theme, rather than asking three different questions. Business
Managers stated that they would support the Llywydd in taking steps to keep
questions short. The Llywydd will consider options and bring forward a note at
start of the next term. |
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Any Other Business LCM on the
Fisheries Bill Business
Managers confirmed their in principle decision of 20 November to refer the LCM on
the Fisheries Bill to the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs
Committee, the External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee and the
Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee. Business Managers agreed a reporting deadline
of 12 February 2019. Committee
Membership Business
Managers noted that the anticipated membership change to the Equality, Local
Government and Communities Committee to replace a Plaid Cymru member with a
Conservative one had not yet happened, as the Conservative group has not decided
on a nominee. |