Thank you again, Dirprwy Lywydd. These regulations do, of course, form an important part of the devolved administrative justice system that we have and that is developing within Wales. We considered these regulations at our meeting yesterday morning, and our reports on all four sets of regulations have been laid to assist with this afternoon’s debate. My comments this afternoon will just focus on the additional learning needs regulations and the education tribunal for Wales regulations.

Our report on the ALN regulations contains just one merits point. The explanatory memorandum to the regulations is a composite document that seeks to cover the suite of regulations and associated code of practice, which were issued concurrently. We noted that the explanatory memorandum covers in detail the consultation outcomes, the justice impact assessment and detailed regulatory impact assessment. However, and bearing in mind the subject matter of the regulations, it was unclear to us whether the detailed equality and human rights impact assessments were also carried out. If relevant impact assessments have been carried out, we said it would be helpful to include reference to them and their findings in the explanatory memorandum to assess the proportionality of the regulations.