The next item is item 14, which is the motion to allocate committee Chairs to the political groups. I call on a member of the Business Committee to move the motion—Simon Thomas.

Motion NDM6056 Elin Jones

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order 17.2A, agrees that the political groups from which the chairs of committees are elected will be as follows:

(i) Children, Young People and Education Committee—Labour;

(ii) Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee—UKIP;

(iii) Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee—Labour;

(iv) Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee—Plaid Cymru;

(v) Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee—Welsh Conservatives;

(vi) Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee—Labour;

(vii) Finance Committee—Plaid Cymru;

(viii) Health, Social Care and Sport Committee—Plaid Cymru;

(ix) Petitions Committee—Labour;

(x) Public Accounts Committee—Welsh Conservatives;

(xi) Reserve Policy and Legislation Committee—Labour;

(xii) Standards of Conduct Committee—Labour.

Motion moved.

Thank you, Llywydd. I will move it formally, but just to add to it and draw the attention of the Assembly to the fact that we passed earlier Standing Orders that allow this to go ahead. In those Standing Orders, we didn’t make it clear—and it isn’t in the Standing Orders—that a Member has to be present here in order to be nominated. Therefore, it is conceivable that somebody gets nominated today when they’re not present to accept that nomination. Unfortunately, we made no provision for that in our Standing Orders.

Well, you were part of drawing up those Standing Orders, Simon Thomas. [Laughter.]

The proposal is to agree the motion to allocate committee Chairs to political groups. Does any Member object? If not, the motion is agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

Motion agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.