21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Right, okay. So, there could well be an agriculture Bill mark 2. Clearly, legislative time within this Senedd—. Within this Senedd or a subsequent Senedd?
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Thank you. We're not going to get through all the questions; I know we'll have to write to you in advance, unless we can keep you for another half an hour or so. But let's see how far we can get. From much of what you've scoped out, it seems clear to us that…
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Thank you, Mabon. Thank you, Minister. We're going to move away from this for a moment, certainly from issues of glue traps, anyway. James, take us on to the UK internal market.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Thank you very much. Mabon.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
It was good; I recommend it.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Thank you, Mike. James, you wanted to come in on this as well.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Thank you, Mabon—brilliant. Mike, we'll come to you to take us on to a very different area.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. Sorry, Mabon.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
There's such a myriad of areas of policy that you're currently working on, some of which will be brought in at slightly different times. Would it be your intent that this comes in front of the Senedd—that it isn't simply a flicked switch with the regulation…
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
So, what is your—just to follow up, Mabon—in-principle approach to whether these provisions should actually come in front of the Senedd, bearing in mind there are different timescales of when they will commence?
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
While you meditate on that for a moment, Mabon, let's come back to you.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Shall we—while you—[Interruption.]
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
James, you'd like to come in on this, if that's okay, Mabon.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Okay. Okay, thanks. Mabon, over to you.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Yes, that's great. Thanks. I'm going to pass to Mabon in a moment, but just to push you a tiny bit further on the areas that James has been doing. I guess the concern that we have when we look at a Bill like this that's been in fruition for such a long time…
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Okay. Thank you very much. Sorry, James, for interrupting.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Yes. Okay. How do you respond to those various outside organisations that say, 'Actually, you've got some really well-worked definitions that already exist out there'? Some of them are very contemporary. Wouldn't it be just simpler, for clarity for the people…
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
So, it's referred to within the Bill and, of course, it's also within your wider policy agenda, so somebody who looks into this Bill, or the proceedings of this committee, and says, 'So, Minister'—or, a lawyer—'what is sustainable land management?' What is it?
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
No. What is it?
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Just before you continue—and I'm genuinely not trying to ask a trick question here, but this committee tends to look at legal clarity and so on, and definitions become very important. I'm aware that I was on the committee the other day that you were in front…
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
That's really helpful. Thank you very much. Thank you, Minister, and thanks, Mike. James, over to you.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Thank you for that. Before we move on to another area of questioning with James, can I ask: are there any fine-edged judgments here around your human rights analysis, because it's always effectively a balance between the different human rights of different…
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Okay. That's brilliant. Mike, we'll come to you, please, to take us on to another area of questioning.
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Okay, that's good to hear. James, are you okay? I can see you were looking quizzical there—
21 Tachwedd 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Amaethyddiaeth (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Thank you very much. Now, one of the things this committee has been very interested in is the operation of common frameworks and the potential they have to make some of these issues across the UK work effectively, if they're working well. So, can I ask you…
