Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:26 pm on 15 February 2022.
Diolch, Llywydd. It's my second opportunity to speak on these motions in front of us this afternoon and I'm going to be even briefer in this excursion here. We considered these regulations at our meeting on 7 February and our report to the Senedd contains one technical reporting point. The regulations, as the Minister has said, make amendments to primary and secondary legislation as a consequence to the modifications to the Transport Act 2000, made by the Corporate Joint Committees (Transport Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2021, and we noted in our report that the regulations at various points refer to section 108(2A)(a) of the Transport Act 2000, which relates to the development of policies as opposed to section 108(2A)(b), which relates to the implementation of policies. We did note, however, that at other points in the regulations, reference is simply made to section 108(2A) as a whole, so it was unclear to us why the reference to paragraph (a) was omitted in some places, given that the regulations dealt only with the development of policies and not their implementation. So, this is very much a technical point here.
But in its response to our report, the Government explained that in the case of corporate joint committees, the 2021 regulations modified section 108(2A) to the effect that it no longer referred to the implementation of policies, and as such, the Government considers that references to section 108 in the regulations before us today to be correct. We're grateful to the Government for this clarification and its response. Diolch.