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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
1. What steps is the Minister taking to improve biodiversity in the rivers of Wales? OQ58924
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Quite a bit of business to get through today. Just as a reminder to people, we're broadcasting this session live on Senedd.tv and we'll be publishing the Record of Proceedings as per normal. But apart from the procedural adaptations for meeting virtually, all…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
—either watching into proceedings or who are following the transcript. A happy new year to you all.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Happy new year, everyone, to all Members here today, but also everyone joining us online—
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome back to the proceedings of this committee, the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee—the first of our meetings following the seasonal break.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon and welcome back.
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Statement by Peter Fox: Introduction of a Member Proposed Bill: Food (Wales) Bill
I genuinely congratulate Peter on getting it to this stage. It doesn’t have a good track record, getting private Members’ backbench business through this place. But genuinely, a lot of work has gone into this. My questions in a minute, really quickly, to…
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Statement by Peter Fox: Introduction of a Member Proposed Bill: Food (Wales) Bill
I think it is working.
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Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
The Minister will know that the cross-party group on cancer is currently carrying out an inquiry, particularly into the issues of deprivation and cancer. There seems to be a direct correlation, from all of the evidence that we've heard in two sessions, so…
