Agenda and minutes
EU Exit Working Group - Wednesday 28 November 2018 2.00 pm

1.1  Apologies for absence were received from the Deputy Chairman, Gareth Bacon AM, and Peter Whittle AM.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Lauren Harvey, [email protected], 020 7983 4383

The Committee is recommended to:

(a)  Note the list of offices held by Assembly Members, as set out in the table at Agenda Item 2, as disclosable pecuniary interests;

(b)   Note the declaration by any Member(s) of any disclosable pecuniary interests in specific items listed on the agenda and the necessary action taken by the Member(s) regarding withdrawal following such declaration(s); and

(c)   Note the declaration by any Member(s) of any other interests deemed to be relevant (including any interests arising from gifts and hospitality received which are not at the time of the meeting reflected on the Authority’s register of gifts and hospitality, and noting also the advice from the GLA’s Monitoring Officer set out at Agenda Item 2) and to note any necessary action taken by the Member(s) following such declaration(s).

2.1   Resolved:

That the list of offices held by Assembly Members, as set out in the table at Agenda Item 2, be noted as disclosable pecuniary interests.

The Working Group is recommended to confirm the minutes of the meetings of the EU Exit Working Group held on 25 October 2018 and 30 October 2018 to be signed by the Chair as a correct record.

3.1  Resolved:

That the minutes of the meetings of the EU Exit Working Group held on 25 October 2018 and 30 October 2018 be signed by the Chair as a correct record.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Lauren Harvey, [email protected], 020 7983 4383

The Working Group is recommended to note the outstanding actions arising from previous meetings of the EU Exit Working Group.

4.1  The Working Group received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat.

4.2  Resolved:

That the outstanding actions arising from previous meetings be noted.

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

Contact: Richard Derecki, [email protected], 020 7983 4899

The Working Group is recommended to:

(a)  Note the report as background to putting questions to invited guests;

(b)  Note the subsequent discussion; and

(c)  Delegate authority to the Chair, in consultation with party Group Lead Members, to agree an output from the discussion.

5.1   The Working Group received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat as background to a discussion with the following invited guests on the future status of EU nationals post-Brexit:

·  Professor Charlotte O’Brien, York Law School;

·  Christopher Desira, Director, Seraphus; and

·  Sunder Katwala, Director, British Future.

5.2  A transcript of the discussion is attached at Appendix 1.

5.3  ‘EU Citizens’ Rights and Settled Status’, provided by Seraphus, is attached at Appendix 2.

5.4   Resolved:

(a)  That the report and the discussion be noted; and

(b)  That authority be delegated to the Chair, in consultation with party Group Lead Members, to agree an output from the discussion and the previous meetings of the Working Group in October 2018.

The next meeting of the EU Exit Working Group is scheduled for Wednesday 13 February 2019 at 2.00pm in Committee Room 4, City Hall.

6.1  The next meeting of the Working Group was scheduled for Wednesday,

13 February 2019 in Committee Room 4, City Hall. 

7.1  There was no urgent business.

8.1  The meeting ended at 3.45pm.