, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Okay. Thanks, Minister. I'm going to assume by the fact that both David and Claire don't want to come in, that they're not flagging anything either. So, if you want to come in later, by all means do. But, we'll take it that your initial reading is that there…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Can I rephrase it, then, knowing that this isn't your Bill, the Welsh Government Bill, but any private Member's Bill has an opportunity to progress if it finds favour within the Senedd? Your initial overview, could I ask whether there are any human rights…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
There we are. Okay, thank you. Before I pass over to Alun to take us on, can I just ask, in terms of any human rights implications, whether you've given consideration to how Peter Fox's Bill impacts, if at all, upon human rights issues?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Alun Davies is quietly purring away in the corner now contentedly.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
We'll have to put that question to Peter himself as well. James, let's bring you in.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
So you haven't gone into it in that detail because it's not a Government Bill, but yourself and David and the team, your overall analysis is that the provisions, which have grown as this Bill has developed, fall broadly within the competence of the Senedd.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
We are going to go quite deeper here, but let me ask you the question that always engages us as a committee. The provisions that do fall within this Bill, should it progress, are you confident that they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd?…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
We'll go into this in quite some depth over the next hour, but I'm going to—. You clearly disagree with the Member bringing forward the Bill, who says this will provide that coherency, and it's interesting your responses—. You know, your response to Food…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
James will come back afterwards. We're all with agricultural experience of some sort. But anyway, let's go to—. One of the challenges here has been from the organisation Food Sense Wales. Listening to what you said in response to that opening answer, they…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Well, there we are. Your worst possible nightmare here.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
I'm also a former agriculture Minister, yes. Crikey. James, your time will come as well.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thanks for that answer. Let me test that a little bit further and then, probably to your great dismay and concern, I'm going to bring in a former agriculture Minister to test this a little bit as well.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
Thank you. Minister, if I can begin with asking you whether you consider that this legislation is necessary, and therefore whether you support Peter Fox's Bill.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
With that, we're going to turn directly to the first substantive item today, item 2, which is the evidence session on the Food (Wales) Bill. We have with on screen Lesley Griffiths, the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd. We also have…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everybody, to this meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee here in Tŷ Hywel. We have apologies for this meeting today from our regular committee member Peredur Owen Griffiths. He's taking part in Bill proceedings at the moment…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon. Welcome to you all.
, Plenary
Short Debate: Developing the hydrogen energy sector in Wales
Thank you very much, Janet, for giving me a minute to contribute in a very interesting debate. There are a couple of early-stage proposals within the Bridgend area, actually, for hydrogen projects, green hydrogen projects. And indeed, hydrogen might well have…
, Plenary
Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
The Bill marks the start of this Welsh Government’s ambitious plans for the consolidation of Welsh law, and it is indeed an endeavour that should be welcomed by this Senedd. Diolch yn fawr iawn.
, Plenary
Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
Llywydd, we recognise the importance of the Bill as the first of its kind for the Senedd and for Welsh law, not least because of the practical impact that it will have in making Welsh law available in both official languages, in improving accessibility to the…
, Plenary
Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
As the responsible committee for considering consolidation Bills, we were tasked with determining whether the Bill should proceed through the Senedd as a consolidation Bill. Our aim was to satisfy ourselves: that the scope of the consolidation is appropriate…
, Plenary
Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate as we, the Senedd, undertake our first consideration of a Welsh consolidation Bill, proposed by the Welsh Government, on Welsh historic environment law.
, Plenary
Initial Consideration Debate on the Historic Environment (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. Hello, again. [Laughter.] Neil Diamond, I think—'Hello Again'.
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Our report notes the Welsh Government’s view that the Bill makes relevant provision in relation to Wales as a result of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, or UKIMA, as I will now refer to it, and specifically that its requirements mean that the…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. We laid our report on this LCM immediately after our meeting yesterday afternoon. The Minister will know we had very little time to consider the memorandum, given that it was laid on 8 December 2022, and we were asked to report by 16…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Shark Fins Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Thank you, again. We laid our report on the Welsh Government's memorandum in respect of the Shark Fins Bill this morning and we came to two conclusions within our report. We made two recommendations to the Welsh Government. We agreed…
