Diolch, Llywydd. I very much regret the way in which Joel James seeks to deliberately debase and undermine the purpose of the social partnership council, and we've very much been here before in this discussion.

In response to amendment 13, when we discussed this same issue during our Stage 2 deliberations, I said that it's entirely appropriate for the social partnership council, which will be an advisory body to the Welsh Government, to be chaired by a Welsh Government Minister, in this case, the First Minister. As I also said during Stage 2, it'd be highly unusual for the Senedd to have a role in appointing a chair to an advisory council such as this. So, we will not be supporting amendments 13 or 16.

Turning to amendment 38, again this is an issue we spoke about at Stage 2, and, as I said at the time, a requirement to publish social partnership council agendas two weeks ahead of each meeting would serve very little practical purpose. It would, however, be unnecessarily and unusually restrictive and would hinder the social partnership council's ability to respond in a flexible and agile way to changing circumstances. My previous position on this has not changed, so the Government will also not be supporting amendment 38. Diolch.