3. 2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:59 pm on 7 March 2017.

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Photo of Jane Hutt Jane Hutt Labour 2:59, 7 March 2017

I thank Dawn Bowden for that important question. The Adjudication Panel for Wales is an independent tribunal. Its function is to determine alleged breaches by elected and co-opted members of Welsh county, county borough and community councils, fire and national park authorities, against their authority’s statutory code of conduct. Members of the tribunal are appointed by the Welsh Ministers through an independent judicial appointment process, conducted by the Judicial Appointments Commission. Welsh Ministers have no involvement in the tribunal’s decisions, which are made by members of the tribunal on the basis of evidence before them.