24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
It's both. Right. Thank you. I thought it was just—. Okay. Is that set out in the related legislation?
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
This is an 'Is it just me?' question: what is idling? Is it when a school bus driver parks outside, discharges the whole of their cohort and it takes five minutes? Or is it when a parent is sitting outside on a cold winter's day for 15 minutes, engine…
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
Great.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
But, as you've made clear, this is for air quality purposes on trunk roads only. I guess what I'm saying is, to be explicit: do you foresee a situation where the Welsh Government sits with local authority leaders and says, 'Well, actually, you're trying to do…
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
Thank you. A short supplementary to Jenny's point there. We are unique now, in England and Wales, at having no congestion charging, no ultra low emission zone, et cetera, et cetera, despite some of the standout congestion that we have in some of our major…
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
That's great. Thank you.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
And when will we see any results of that work, do you know?
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
This links, of course, to the earlier discussion we had on where the duties lie and what we're actually monitoring as well, and what we want to set targets for, because, obviously, if you were to introduce other things, beyond what's described currently in…
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 2
Thanks very much, Chair. One of the criticisms we've heard of the current approach is that it focuses on hotspot areas of air quality. What does this Bill do to make it more comprehensive in the way it tackles air quality across all parts of Wales, including…
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
Yes.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
Does it enhance the ability of a citizen to bring a challenge?
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
Is there anything that weakens this, in the post-EU landscape, within this Bill? Is there anything within this Bill that weakens the ability of a citizen to bring that challenge?
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
So, as the Bill is currently framed, what is your legal opinion of how a citizen would use this Bill and the targets, as they're currently framed, subject to anything that comes forward from this committee, to actually challenge the Welsh Government on any…
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
Which does bring us back to what's on the face of the Bill and what are, to pick up Roger Herbert's point earlier on, statutory targets as opposed to discretionary targets.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
It's a tiny follow-up on that that goes beyond the local incidents of air pollution and into the ability of a citizen to challenge the Government. This could go back to the earlier conversation as well about the multiple streams of work you've got going on on…
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
And even people who harvest their own.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
Including with sellers as well as—
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
There is.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
Please put that in writing as well.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
Right.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
Could I then just, Chair, in that, dispose of the other thing that was on my mind, which was the parallel piece of work that you've been doing on domestic burning? A lot of people have been saying, 'Why doesn't it feature in this Bill?' You may have some…
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
And you’ve done that sort of mapping already.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
—on the basis of that data coming in, how you would then rectify it in terms of either statutory targets, regulations—existing ones—for each one, for each item.
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
And you must have an idea already, then—
24 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - tystiolaeth gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd: rhan 1
A really short supplementary on that. Is there any way practically that you can also scope out in your current mind’s view how you are then going to introduce these other targets in other areas, the ones that you’ve said, ‘Well, we’re not quite ready'? Some…
