15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
A lot of things.
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Yes, indeed. But do be aware, of course, that we still have the ongoing discussion—this is part of that long tail issue—we still have the ongoing discussion with UK Government about—. We have to have in place those sanitary and phytosanitary controls…
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Thanks, Luke. Yes, it is to reflect what we need for the year ahead in 2025-26. So, our assessment for the year ahead is that that will meet those essential costs for—. We were just touching on Holyhead, for example. So, for example, on completing the work on…
15 January 2025 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning
Thank you, Chair, and welcome to you as Chair of this committee as well. I hope you enjoy this experience here. First of all, it has shaped the budget in a number of ways. Some of them are really practical and direct, others are dealing with, if you like, a…
8 January 2025 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
Thank you so much for bringing this debate forward.
8 January 2025 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
Thank you once again for bringing this issue to the fore. I want to assure you that I will give further consideration to a potential Bill in Wales if the evidence were to support it.
8 January 2025 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
Indeed. This is a UK matter, but I think that we can express a view in the Senedd. The multiplicity of databases and registration points causes some problems for identifying and linking up with the owner. Those are really practical things that we can work on…
8 January 2025 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
—at the other end of the M4, in order to make it easier and more regular to reunite pets with their owners. Yes, indeed, Carolyn.
8 January 2025 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
As has been mentioned already in this debate, the theft of a pet is a criminal offence already under the non-devolved Theft Act 1968, and the maximum penalty is, indeed, seven years imprisonment. There are issues, I think, around sentencing guidelines and so…
8 January 2025 , Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill on pet abduction
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. And thank you, Carolyn, too for introducing this important debate. I thank also Janet, Rhys and Joyce, who have spoken in this debate. Now, I understand that pet abduction or the loss of a pet is very concerning and causes…
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
In the current round. So, what we are enabling with this funding is for those projects that are being brought forward now for the year ahead as well.
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
That's correct. So, we've currently got—. Under the current round of funding, we've got just short of 90 projects specifically on that, on removing the physical barriers and putting more accessible routes in. Out of those over 450 projects over the last…
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, not mega sums of money, but relatively minor improvements.
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Well, yes. Without betraying any secrets, the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales and I have had a discussion. I went out recently for a ramble with the Ramblers, and they were very seized with the opportunity to help Welsh Government, both in…
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
We'll have to check and come back.
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes, yes.
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes, indeed. It is, Carolyn, within this budget. I would say, by the way—oh, gosh. I'm no longer, but as a former vice president of Ramblers Cymru, I've a lot of empathy with this, because the more that we can invest in the existing rights of way network…
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Although, you and I are showing our—
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes, we're not adding to it. It's not quite the Allbright advert.
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, just to be crystal clear: we're actually working through the options on what the transition will be, whether that's a shadow body or some other—. And we can bring that forward in due course. In terms of the additional capacity we built in, that's been…
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes, I think it will and I think part of that will be if they, as we're confident they will, bring forward some of those outputs of the work that they've been doing this year, so that there's more public visibility on that. So, that's an area, that area and…
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
That's not reflected in this budget.
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
We're still considering that. I know it's something the committee have raised before. We're alive to that as one of the options that could do that transition from these interim measures to a more permanent governance body. We're working through that. It's one…
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes, but—. Sorry. It will definitely result, we are confident, in bringing more outputs from the current model with the interim assessor that we have, which is not the fully fledged beast that we are going to transition to. But one of the things that this…
8 January 2025 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
—or other aspects. Yes, sorry.
