Group 11: Contracts register (Amendments 10, 11)

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:57 pm on 7 March 2023.

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Photo of Peredur Owen Griffiths Peredur Owen Griffiths Plaid Cymru 6:57, 7 March 2023

The purpose of amendments 10 and 11 is to amend section 40, which sets out the information contracting authorities must include in their contracts register. The effect of these amendments is, again, as I have already mentioned in relation to those tabled about section 27, is to futureproof section 40 by adding a similar regulation-making power that will enable Ministers to amend the list of requirements should the need arise. In addition to the data that's being collected as a result of the amendment agreed in the previous grouping on annual socially responsible procurement reports, we envisage that the contracts register, through its primary purpose being transparency, should be utilised to require additional data from suppliers. Say if it emerged to a future Minister in a future Government that specific data was required to further drive forward our wider ambitions to support the value added to the Welsh economy from procurement, then that case could be made to the Senedd. As with many of the amendments I've laid today, this is about ensuring this legislation is fit for purpose beyond the first couple of years of its life. I hope that this is a place where most of us are coming from today. Diolch yn fawr.