, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Ah, right. Interesting. So, two of the key partners in driving this forward, making the difference in Wales, are TfW and our local authorities. So, do any of our witnesses have a view on whether they have sufficient capacity, expertise, powers, tools and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Can I just briefly ask you to go a little bit further on that? Because it seems that what you're saying is that Welsh Government, indeed, has a role—this is not dissimilar to broadband roll-out—where UK has the prime role, but Welsh Government can make it go…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Thank you very much. The main policy levers for driving this forward rest at a UK level, and the strategy by and large is a market-driven strategy with assistance from Government. So, things like the bans on diesel and petrol cars and vans to push this agenda…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Yes, okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Just to follow-up on that line of questioning, how much of this is skewed on a UK figure by London and the south-east, or other geographic factors? So, for example, in terms of uptake of electric vehicles, is Wales pretty much comparative to the north-east or…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
That's really good to hear. We've got a lot more work to do, I know, but Cefn Cribwr Primary School were in today and I asked them, 'How many of you scoot, walk or cycle to school?' and nine out of 10 hands went up. It's really great to see, and if we could…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
7. How is the Minister working with the Minister for Climate Change to increase active travel to schools and colleges? OQ58925
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, I'd better declare my interest here as the Atlantic salmon champion, but biodiversity in our rivers is intrinsically tied up with issues of pollution, and the causes of pollution in our rivers are myriad, and resolving the problem will require a myriad…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
1. What steps is the Minister taking to improve biodiversity in the rivers of Wales? OQ58924
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Biodiversity
Can I just begin by not only welcoming the statement, but genuinely welcoming the leadership that you, Minister, and Welsh Government have shown in this? It was great that you were out there, that you were not just out there, but actively engaged in those…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
That does bring us to the point, actually, where I can put to Members our standard motion, under Standing Order 17.42, to seek to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting so we can move into private session. Are you happy to do so? Okay. We will…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
So, then, that takes us to item 7, papers to note. Again, I'll go through these and shout at me if there's anything specifically you want to raise or comment on. The first of these, 7.1, is correspondence from the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional Relations Agreement
Item 6, then, we have notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. So, we have, under 6.1, a written statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services. It's in relation to the transfer of functions from NHS…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common frameworks
In which case, then, we'll move on now to item No. 5, our regular look at common frameworks. So, under 5.1, we have the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee report on common frameworks. There are 46 recommendations made in total. Some of them call on…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
That's great. Thank you very much for that. Good.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
That's great; really good. I think we're happy to note those points there. Thank you very much for that, Kate. That brings us our last item in this section, item 4.3, SL(6)291, the Food and Feed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
That's great, thank you. It's good that we've got it on record here. We're trying to be helpful, as ever, in drawing the Government's attention to its own approach here, or what it should be. Item 4.2—. Colleagues, are you happy with that? In which case, we…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 - previously considered
If we're happy to agree that, colleagues, we'll move, then, onto item No. 4, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, which we have previously considered. And we start here with item 4.1, SL(6)279…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That's brilliant. Thank you very much. That's a welcome response there.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you very much. Colleagues, are we happy to agree those reporting points? We are. Thank you, Kate. So, we go on now to, item 3.5, an affirmative resolution instrument, SL(6)297, the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Thank you, Kate. With that point, are we happy to agree that report? We are. So we go on, then, under the same section to item 3.4, SL(6)306, the Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2022, and we…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay. James, this is something that we've taken up repeatedly, and colleagues here on the committee have taken up repeatedly, so we note those, I think, and agree those action points. And I suspect that this is something that we'll take up again as we go…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That's great, thank you very much. So, noting those action points, do we have any other comments, colleagues, or are we happy to agree those? Happy to agree those. Thank you very much, Kate. We go on to item 3.2, SL(6)304, the Processed Cereal-based Foods and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We'll proceed, then, to item No. 3, which is instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3. The first of these, item 3.1, is SL(6)299, the Seed (Equivalence) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2022. We have a…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, we go on to our first substantive item, which is item No. 2, which, as per normal, is instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3. And under this item 2, we have a made negative resolution instrument: item 2.1, SL(6)300…
