, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 2
Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 2
So, on fares and so on—sorry, Chair, we're up against time—that argues for greater control here in Wales, about knitting together our fares structure, including an element of the devolution of management of fares within Wales.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 2
Thanks. Is there anything else from the other panellists in terms of what we should be saying to Welsh Government about making sure that they advocate for within Great British Railways?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. Great British Railways: have you got any views on whether this works for Wales, whether it fits with all the things we've been discussing and our reforms, or is it a hindrance? What do you think?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 2
Okay, thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 2
No, we'll probably come to that but, Sylviya, thank you. That's an encouraging response. Do any other panelists—? Have you crunched the numbers to see whether doing that modal shift and the demand reduction will get us to where we need to be on greenhouse gas…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 2
Thank you, Chair. I loved those points by Silviya there on what we need to do, but can I ask the panel—you don't all need to answer this—but if, and it is an if, we achieve the modal shift targets that the Welsh Government has, will those be enough to get the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 1
One of the comments that was just made a moment ago by your colleague was about innovation. Sometimes, we do see innovation coming through where very small local operators will run routes that are simply off the track for either a larger operator or even for…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 1
Yes, just a quick follow-up, Chair. You've talked about the massive investment that's needed in fleet in terms of decarbonisation, and we've touched on the approach of a franchise model. All of these things suggest to me that that would mean a quite radical…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 1
No, that's very comprehensive; that's very good. Thank you very much.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and rail transport in Wales - evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. Let's dive a little bit deeper into this, and I want to look at this issue of modal change here, and Professor Barry, some of your previous comments, and you've touched on it today, that there's no getting away from the need for demand…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Biodiversity: The big picture. Seeding the future—the importance of managing grass verges and grasslands
Thank you, Carolyn, for introducing this debate—a great contribution there. I just want to say a few words, and it's picking up on the themes that you said. We can all play a role within this. This morning before I came in, I just happened to be flicking…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Post-Brexit funding
I have hardly started—[Laughter.]—hardly started. So, I want to touch on a couple of the challenges that have already been flagged on the forum. One is the additional burden that it adds to local authorities, because they have to manage the competitive bid…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Post-Brexit funding
Look, I'd hate to say it is going to be that way, but it is indeed a danger, and the fact that we can't scrutinise—so it's already been flagged by the forum members that they have concerns that some of the proposals being brought forward will actually…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Post-Brexit funding
That's actually part of the lessons that we took through in the framework that we put forward and that the OECD worked with us directly on over those three years. The OECD, by the way, is still working with Welsh Government on these matters, and I think that…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Post-Brexit funding
I'm going to try today not to make any political points whatsoever. The only thing I will do, when I intervened on you earlier, Paul—. It is interesting the approach that has been taken, in that the only people excluded to a high degree from this are the…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Post-Brexit funding
Thank you for giving way, Paul. I appreciate what you're saying about getting some of these decisions down to a local area. In fact, that's what the strategic group looking at regional funding within Wales was looking at, based on the very best OECD models. I…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
It was fascinating at the weekend to see a little evidence of blue water appearing in the leader of the Conservatives' speech—it wasn't so much an ocean or even a river, nor a stream; it was more a rivulet, or perhaps a rill, a tiny little trickle—in terms of…
, Plenary
Statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution: Justice in Wales
First of all, can I welcome both the statement and also the accompanying 160-odd pages? I haven't done any word counts in there, but we are looking forward, as a committee, to getting our teeth into this as well. I welcome the focus that both you and the…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Welsh in education workforce
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, I hope that you enjoyed the visit to Llanhari school today and I very much hope that you enjoyed the singing as much as the children and the teachers enjoyed your dancing in the playground. [Laughter.] Indeed…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Could we have a statement on measures that Welsh Government Ministers will take to urge the UK Government to raise the value of Healthy Start vouchers to meet the runaway cost of inflation? The UK Government last raised the value of the Healthy Start vouchers…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
We then move to item No. 7, which is our regular motion, under Standing Order 17.42, to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting. Colleagues, are we happy to do so? We are. There we are. I'll ask my clerking team to take us into private…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
We move on to item No. 6, which is papers to note. And again, quite limited today, so we're rattling through this. One item of correspondence. It's from the House of Lords Constitution Committee to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson in respect of revision of…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
That brings us on to item No. 5, the inter-institutional relations agreement, and, again, one item under this. Item 5.1 relates to a letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd in respect of the Sea Fisheries (Amendment)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common frameworks
We will move on, then, to item No. 4. We have our updates here on this regular item on common frameworks. Again, only one item today, which is 4.1, a report by the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee in respect of the provisional common…
