Our report raised what Members will now recognise as quite familiar merits points under Standing Order 21.3, namely highlighting any potential interference with human rights and the lack of formal consultation. Our third merits reporting point notes that the explanatory memorandum accompanying the regulations makes no reference to an equality impact assessment. We asked the Welsh Government to explain what arrangements it has made in respect of these regulations to publish reports of equality impact assessments in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 (Statutory Duties) (Wales) Regulations 2011. In its response, the Welsh Government told us that, whilst a full regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared and published in relation specifically to these regulations because of the need to put them in place urgently, a summary impact assessment will be published as soon as practically possible.

This is not the first time that our committee has raised a merits point asking the Welsh Government to explain what arrangements it has made as regards equality impact assessments. It is becoming something of a recurring theme that, unfortunately, the Minister is getting caught up in here. I'd like to take this opportunity to again provide some what I hope is genuinely constructive feedback to the Welsh Government. I think it would help—and our committee thinks it would help—Senedd Members and the Welsh Government, and anyone, in fact, following the Senedd's scrutiny of these matters, if the explanatory memoranda to coronavirus regulations provided information about equality impact assessments just as a matter of course. Including what should be basic information in these explanatory memoranda would, in our view, be relatively straightforward to do and lead to greater transparency in the making of the legislation. Minister, thank you very much and I hope that that's a helpful suggestion for future regulations of this type. Diolch yn fawr iawn.