Cross-Party Groups may be set up by Assembly Members in respect of any subject area relevant to the Assembly.
A group must include Members from three political party groups represented within the Assembly. Cross-Party Groups are not formal Assembly groupings and are not, therefore, bound by any of the Assembly's Standing Orders. They have no formal role in policy development.
On 26 June 2013 the Assembly resolved to introduce new rules for the operation of Cross-Party Groups (PDF 102KB), following an inquiry by the Standards of Conduct Committee. The new rules came into force on 23 September 2013 and required existing Assembly Cross-Party Groups to re-register.
The following Cross-Party Groups have been registered during the Fourth Assembly:
- Allied Steel and Wire workers
- Armed Forces and Cadets
- Autism
- Biodiversity
- Cancer
- Childhood Sexuality - Sexualisation and Equality
- Children
- Children Affected by Parental Imprisonment
- Co-operatives & Mutuals
- Coeliac Disease & Dermatitis Herpetiformis
- Community Transport
- Construction
- Cross Party Group in support of Visteon Pensioners (Wound up 11 June 2014)
- Cross-Party Group on Asbestos
- Deaf Issues
- Dementia
- Diabetes
- Digital Communication
- Disability
- Eating Disorders
- Europe
- Faith
- Fuel Poverty
- Funerals and Bereavement
- Gypsies and Travellers
- Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood
- Hospices/Palliative Care
- Housing
- Human Rights and Peace
- Human Trafficking in Wales
- Industrial Communities (deregistered)
- Justice Unions
- Looked After Children
- Mental Health
- Monetary Reform
- Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular Conditions
- Neurological Conditions
- Nursing & Midwifery
- Older People and Ageing
- Project UK: Changing Union (Wound up)
- Public and Commercial Services Union
- Rail (Wound up - 20 January 2016)
- Rural Affairs
- Science and Technology
- Shooting and Conservation
- Skin
- Small Shops
- Stroke (Wound up - February 2015)
- The Horse
- The Welsh Language
- Tourism
- Violence Against Women and Children
- Vision
- Waterways
- Welsh Food and Drink
- Women in the Economy