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Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill
- This consultation has completed. It ran from Friday, 10 June 2022 to Friday, 22 July 2022
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Response to the consultation
Evidence submitted in response to this Consultation
- SPPP Bill 01 - Civil Engineering Contractors Association PDF 308 KB
- SPPP Bill 02 - Professor Alan Felstead, Cardiff University PDF 313 KB
- SPPP Bill 03 - Colleges Wales PDF 176 KB
- SPPP Bill 04 - FSB Wales PDF 158 KB
- SPPP Bill 05 - Denbighshire County Council PDF 155 KB
- SPPP Bill 06 - Community Housing Cymru PDF 82 KB
- SPPP Bill 07 - Equality and Human Rights Commission Wales PDF 322 KB
- SPPP Bill 08 - CIOB PDF 2 MB
- SPPP Bill 09 - BSI PDF 147 KB
- SPPP Bill 10 - Wrexham Council PDF 357 KB
- SPPP Bill 11 - Amnesty International Wales PDF 744 KB
- SPPP Bill 12 - Size of Wales, Cytun, WCIA, FairTrade Wales, WWF Cymru PDF 172 KB
- SPPP Bill 13 - WCVA PDF 187 KB
- SPPP Bill 14 - Chwarae Teg PDF 249 KB
- SPPP Bill 15 - RMT Union PDF 753 KB
- SPPP Bill 16 - Natural Resources Wales PDF 240 KB
- SPPP Bill 17 - Universities Wales PDF 164 KB
- SPPP Bill 18 - Royal College of Nursing Wales PDF 180 KB
- SPPP Bill 19 - Cwmpas PDF 179 KB
- SPPP Bill 20 - Chambers Wales PDF 470 KB
- SPPP Bill 21 - National Education Union Cymru PDF 189 KB
- SPPP Bill 22 - TUC Wales PDF 151 KB
- SPPP Bill 23 - Institute of Welsh Affairs PDF 192 KB
- SPPP Bill 24 - Open Rights Group PDF 118 KB
- SPPP Bill 25 - Fair Trade Wales PDF 115 KB
- SPPP Bill 26 - Digital Health & Care Wales PDF 152 KB
- SPPP Bill 27 - Tomorrow's Company PDF 283 KB
- SPPP Bill 28 - Welsh Language Commissioner PDF 343 KB
- SPPP Bill 29 - Audit Wales PDF 240 KB
- SPPP Bill 30 - Digital Health and Care Wales (no. 2) PDF 178 KB
- SPPP Bill 31 - Welsh Local Government Association PDF 292 KB
Purpose of the consultation
The Equality and Social Justice Committee is undertaking Stage 1 scrutiny into the general principles of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Bill (the Bill). In order to help inform its scrutiny, the Committee asked for views on the general principles of the Bill and the need for legislation to deliver the stated policy intention. Those contributing to the consultation were invited to consider the Bill’s key provisions, which are:
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>>> the establishment of a Social Partnership Council;
>>> a statutory duty on certain public bodies to seek consensus or compromise with their recognised trade unions (or where there is no recognised trade union) other representatives of their staff, when setting their well-being objectives and delivering on those objectives under section 3(2) of the WFG Act 2015;
>>> a statutory duty on Welsh Ministers to consult social partners, employers and worker representatives through the Social Partnership Council when delivering on their well-being objectives under section 3(2)(b) of the WFG Act 2015 ;
>>> amendment of section 4 of the WFG Act 2015 by substituting ‘fair work’ for ‘decent work’ within the existing “A prosperous Wales” goal;
>>> a statutory duty on certain public bodies to consider socially responsible public procurement when carrying out procurement, to set objectives in relation to well-being goals, and to publish a procurement strategy
>>> certain public bodies to carry out contract management duties to ensure that socially responsible outcomes are pursued through supply chains.
>>> reporting duties to be imposed on the public bodies and Welsh Ministers in relation to the Social Partnership Duty and Procurement duty.
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Contributors were also invited to consider:
Any potential barriers to the implementation of the Bill’s provisions and whether the Bill takes account of them;
The appropriateness of the powers in the Bill for Welsh Ministers to make subordinate legislation (as set out in Chapter 5 of Part 1 of the Explanatory Memorandum);
Whether there are any unintended consequences arising from the Bill; and
The financial implications of the Bill (as set out in Part 2 of the Explanatory Memorandum).
The consultation ran until Friday 22 July 2022.
Supporting documents
Contact details
Should you wish to speak to someone regarding this consultation, please use the below contact details:
Equality and Social Justice Committee
Welsh Parliament
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1SN
Email: SeneddEquality@senedd.wales
Telephone: 0300 200 6565