, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Fantastic. In which case, one of the things that's been put forward—and I wonder whether you think that that group should be considering this—is rather than the revolver and a bottle of whiskey in a locked room, actually having some sort of external…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Yes. I'm really glad to hear that you've actually established a group specifically on common land.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
We didn't act on it.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
It was a suggestion made to me—it wasn't mine.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
About 15 per cent. So, the importance of common land to this is key. The challenge with common land, of course, is getting people to work together on a spatial basis to do it. Once described to me when I was environment Minister in Westminster tackling issues…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Okay. Right. Okay, there we are. Right. So, I'm slightly out of date. So, slightly more. So, we're looking at 15 per cent, you say?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Slightly more.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Well done, colleagues, on that. Fantastic [Laughter.] Let me turn to the issue I was going to raise with you, which was to do with common land. Can I just ask for clarification, as we go into this, roughly speaking, it's 7, 8 or 9 per cent of Wales's land…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Okay. Thanks for that. The definition of 'agriculture' in the Bill impacts only on the internal operation of this Bill. Did you look at any point at amending the definition of 'agriculture' that applies to agricultural tenancies in the Agricultural Holdings…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
So, you don't agree that they feel particularly vulnerable with the FBTs themselves, because of the very nature of FBTs?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
In respect of agricultural tenancies, the Tenant Farmers Association describes the fact that tenancy provisions do not extend to farm business tenancies, FBTs, as a major omission. Their short-term nature, restrictive terms and high levels of rent mean that…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
In respect of common land, or—?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Yes, just in support of Luke's point. Some organisations have suggested that any future changes to this should be linked to the parallel process that's going on in developing sustainable land management, which really brings all that together. Traditionally at…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Thank you again, Chair. In terms of the list of consultees, sometimes it's helpful to hear the words of a Minister on record in evidence sessions like this about how they see that developing. If you don't want to be more prescriptive, do you envisage, as the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
It's interesting, Chair, and I do see the struggle the Minister has here. I think I'd simply draw attention to it. It's probably a wider discussion than here in this agriculture Bill today. But we know the condition of the existing footpath network and the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
Thank you, Chair. So, the strength of these objectives is they're so wide and all-encompassing; the weakness of them is they're so wide and all-encompassing. That issue of cherry-picking could be flipped on its head to say, 'Well, some of these can drop off…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Also an honorary member of the BVA, but also one of the vice-presidents of Ramblers Cymru.
, Plenary
Points of Order
Thanks, Presiding Officer. I concur with the points made by Joyce, and you could hear the sentiment in the thing. But actually my original point of order that I was raising was on behalf of backbench Members who are not frontbench spokespeople. In introducing…
, Plenary
Points of Order
A point of order, Presiding Officer. It's not the same point of order.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
A point of order, Presiding Officer.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
Minister, I welcome that really positive response. Sarah Murphy and I attended in the last month a celebratory event to mark the ten thousandth individual referred on to that pathway from Princess of Wales, through Bridgend Care and Repair. What it does is a…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
1. What recent assessment has the Minister made of the hospital to home service provided through the partnership between Bridgend County Care and Repair and the Princess of Wales Hospital? OQ58690
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
I'm truly glad to hear that Welsh Government has laid out its priorities in advance of the autumn statement. We know, as a matter of fact, from our constituents, from our local authorities and our third sector that mark 1 Conservative austerity tore the guts…
