We move now to item 7, the Corporate Joint Committees (Transport Functions) (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2022. I call on the Deputy Minister for Climate Change to move the motion—Lee Waters.

Motion NDM7919 Lesley Griffiths

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5:

1. Approves that the draft The Corporate Joint Committees (Transport Functions) (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) (Wales) Regulations 2022 is made in accordance with the draft laid in the Table Office on 25 January 2022.

Motion moved.

Diolch, Llywydd. I move the motion. As the Minister for finance has just said in her debate, one of the core functions of the new corporate joint committees is to deliver a duty to prepare a regional transport plan, and as we've just heard, this duty will transfer later in 2022. And what I'm seeking to do today is to modify legislation that refers to the local authority duty to prepare local transport plans and then ensuring that the policies in the existing local transport plans remain in force until the new regional transport plans are approved. We're also revoking the Regional Transport Planning (Wales) Order 2014, which enables local authorities to work together to produce local transport plans.

The Senedd has already agreed to establish CJCs, and that the transport planning function should be transferred from the local authorities. And today I'm asking Members to make consequential technical amendments and transitional improvements related to transport. I'd be grateful for the support of Members in approving these regulations today. Diolch.

I now call on the chairman of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee, Huw Irranca-Davies.

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.

The Deputy Minister to reply, if he wishes to do so.

I thank Huw Irranca-Davies for his comments and for his feedback from his committee, and I'm glad that we've agreed a way forward, and I hope that Members are able to support the regulations.

Thank you. The proposal is to agree the motion. Does any object? [Objection.] Yes, there is an objection, and I will defer voting until voting time.

Voting deferred until voting time.