, 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…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. What discussions has the First Minister had with the UK Government regarding the main priorities for Wales in the forthcoming autumn budget statement? OQ58692
, 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 move to item 10, which is our standard motion so that we can move into private session. So, under Standing Order 17.42, could I ask Members if they're content to exclude the public for the remainder of this meeting? We are. So, we'll move into private…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Yes, we welcome that and thank the Business Committee for that helpful response there. Item 9.5, we have correspondence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution and the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Government, following our meeting on 10…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Thank you, Alun, yes. Okay, so we'll do that. Thanks, Alun. Then we have item 9.4, correspondence from the Business Committee in response to the concerns that we raised in our annual report regarding the reasons used by Welsh Government to using UK Bills to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
On to item 9, then, papers to note. We have a range of papers here, and again, I'll go through them for the record. Briefly, we have correspondence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, including a letter, report and written statement…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional Relations Agreement
Yes, a very good point made. The Senedd has frequently made this point about the quality and the regularity of the inter-ministerial, but also the First Minister, two Ministers, from the Prime Minister to devolved Government Ministers as well. So, yes, we…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional Relations Agreement
Then, we have under item 8 notifications and correspondence. For the purposes of this committee today, just to read into the record, we have written correspondence under 8.1 from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales and Trefnydd in respect of the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Written statements under Standing Order 30C
Then, we move on to item 7, which is our written statements under Standing Order 30C. Under 7.1, we have written statement 30C(6)018, the European University Institute (EU Exit) Regulations 2022, where we are informed that the Welsh Government has given…
