, 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, Gareth. Are we content with those action points there, and the reporting points? Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Gareth, very much. That brings us on, then, to item 4.6, which is an affirmative resolution instrument, SL(6)155, the Local…
, 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 for that. Colleagues, can I ask are you happy with that response and the points? Thank you very much for that. We are. On to, then, item 4.5, which is SL(6)162, the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information to Travellers and Operator…
, 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, Gareth. And, of course, these measures are now in operation, as well. So, with the acceptance of the Government of the correction of the data aspect and their acknowledgment that those two points in particular could have been clearer in the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That's great. Thank you for that, Gareth. Colleagues, any comments, or are we happy to note those merits points and technical points? Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Gareth. On to item 4.3, which is a familiar one in a sequence of these: it's SL(6)159, the Health…
, 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, Gareth. And just for clarity, we'd expect those commencement Orders to come across to us at some point in the future, yes?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That's great. Thank you, Gareth. So, we're awaiting that response. Are we happy with that action point, as we wait for the response? We are. Thank you very much. Thank you, Gareth. That takes us onto item 4.2, SL(6)158, the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
That takes us on, then, to item 4, which are instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under those Standing Orders, 21.2 and 21.3. The first of these is a made negative resolution instrument, SL(6)157, the Food (Withdrawal of Recognition)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Item 3, then: we have the instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. The first of these is item 3.1, SL(6)154, the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022. This instrument…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution—postponed to 14 March 2022
So, we'll go into the first item on the agenda, which is item 2, which, as I mentioned, was to be the scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution. That is postponed, but just to flag for Members, we have some papers relating to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Welcome to this session this afternoon of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. I'm pleased to say all our Members are here this afternoon, as always. We have full attendance; no apologies to give for today's session. Although, I do have one…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good afternoon. Welcome to you all today.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
That's great. Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Could you, or Bill or Olwen, give us some idea of where that already happens, in order to give us some assurance of the type of situation where that happens?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
It was worth a try. Okay. Could I just ask you—? Within the framework, it talks about the Environment Agency and its ability to potentially administer functions on behalf of devolved regulators. Can you explain what this is? I'm sure this isn't anything to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thanks, Chair. Minister, I just want to turn, finally, in my questions to the role of the Environment Agency as described in the framework. But, before I do, you almost stumbled into telling us where you were up to on the timetable for the air quality…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. That's really helpful and reassuring once again, but just to be crystal clear, now that this framework is in place, alongside the other inter-governmental machinery that also underpins this, your bringing forward of legislation in Wales, which has been…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Marvellous. Thank you very much indeed. In that case, let me ask you: could you explain further the framework statement that says that, in the event of a dispute between Governments, the making of legislation may need to be postponed until they agree on how…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
I think I'd better, at the start of doing this, declare an interest for all of us on this committee, because not only has the committee been very forthright on the need for legislation on air quality, but I think probably every Member on this committee is…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
That is reassuring, Minister. Chair, I'd just make the observation that this is a good session and this seems to be one of the areas where we're getting from the Minister and officials that it's working well in terms of the drop-down of the common framework…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. I'm going to throw a little bit of a fly in the ointment here, because the test could come a lot sooner than that. UK Government has been outspoken in the last few days on the announcement that it first made back in last October/November about the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Okay. Can I take you on, then, to the UK-EU trade and co-operation agreement, the TCA, as it's abbreviated. Could you explain how this framework takes into account the duties placed on Welsh Government by the TCA, so, for example, that duty to maintain…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. That's brilliant. Thanks for that. I just wanted to stress test that a little bit. So, we're taking your good, solid reassurances there that, in this area of policy, we don't foresee any real problems coming, because it's a drop down, in effect.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. That's brilliant. Thank you. Can I do just a cheeky rejoiner to Delyth's question early on? It's been really reassuring so far, this session, and I suspect it's partly because, in the areas of air quality and chemicals et cetera, they are very, very…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Provisional Common Frameworks: Air Quality, and Chemicals and Pesticides—evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
No, I'm happy—[Inaudible.]—Chair, if that's okay.
