, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
No, no, fully understandable. I just wondered, Chair, whether it might be helpful, Minister, if you or your officials could drop us a note afterwards on the sorts of things you're trying to get out of those negotiations on a UK basis, because it may be that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Sorry to interrupt you, Minister. Could I just ask, because we are running out of time, just for your clear assurances that you're working with those sectors and those players in industry in Wales that are most affected, in making sure that their voices are…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Chair. Minister, we've got to the bit we've all been waiting for: we're going to turn our attention to the UK emissions trading scheme and the carbon border adjustment mechanism and what might be happening both in Europe and here. This is the spicy…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
That's helpful. Thank you very much.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
That's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Yes. Brilliant.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Right, but can you tell us whether—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
That's very well explained. Thank you for that, Mr Oates—really helpful. It seems to me like you're aiming a ship in a certain direction, and you're looking to pick the right things to measure and assess to keep you on that track, but things will buffet you…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. And I'll try and bundle my questions on monitoring, reporting and verification into two questions, basically. First of all is your assessment of how effective it's been to date at monitoring the emissions impact of spending decisions. But also…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Turning to private investment, away from public sector, but in the different sectors where you have this really stretching target, we're not going to do this on our own; we've got to lever in significant private investment. Can you give us an overview of how…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Minister, thank you very much for that. It's a comprehensive and a very frank assessment of where we are, why those targets were set, why they were exceeded, but how much further we need to go. Others will go into some more detail on the technical aspects…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales - scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Bore da, Gweinidog. Could I begin by asking you to set out the key Welsh Government policy decisions that led to Wales meeting and exceeding both the carbon 1 budget and the 2020 target? And could I ask you also just to respond to the very…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill
Now, last month, Llywydd, I spoke in the debate on the legislative consent motion for the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill and I noted that our final report on that Bill was our fortieth report on legislative consent memoranda in this sixth Senedd—the fortieth…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill
Thank you, Llywydd. I'll be as quick as possible. We have produced three reports covering the five consent memoranda that have been laid by the Minister for this Bill. The first was completed last November, and the third was laid only yesterday afternoon.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
So, we have proceeded quite rapidly, actually, to our standard motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting so that we can go into private session. Colleagues, are you happy to move into private session?…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
This brings us on, then, to item 5, our papers to note. First of all, item 5.1, we have correspondence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution in respect of correcting Welsh statutory instruments. Just to note for committee members, the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement
This brings us on, then, to item 4, notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. The first of these is item 4.1, correspondence from the Minister for Finance and Local Government in respect of the Finance…
, 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
We don't always agree with Welsh Government on things; that's not unusual. That's what we're here for sometimes. Colleagues, are you happy to note that correspondence and the response? We are. Thank you very much.
, 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
This takes us on then to item 3, which are instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we have previously considered. We have one item under this to look at, and it's item 3.1, referring to SL(6)312, the…
, 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. Could I ask for any comments from committee members or are you content with those reporting points? You are. We're all content with that. Thank you very much to our lawyers.
, 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. Can I ask you, committee colleagues, are you happy with those reporting points? We are. Thank you very much. It takes us on, then, to item 2.3. It's an affirmative resolution instrument, SL(6)323, the Non-Domestic Rating (Alteration of Lists…
, 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, Kate. Colleagues, are we happy with that reporting point? We are. We'll agree those and move on to item 2.2, which is SL(6)322, the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Review of Maps) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2023. These…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, with that, and we have no apologies—a full turnout here today from the committee Members—we'll move straight on to item No. 2, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3. The first of these is…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everybody, to this afternoon's meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We're holding today's session in a virtual session, but, just to remind everybody, we are being broadcast live on Senedd.tv. The Record of Proceedings will…
