, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thanks, Counsel General. I don't want to dwell on this overlong at the start of this session, although some of the areas you've touched on we'll come back to, and individual Members will want to pick up on as well; I'm sure they will. But can I just ask…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
So, with that, we'll go straight on to our first substantive item this afternoon, and we're delighted, once again, to have with us the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, Mick Antoniw MS—always very welcome with us and spends a lot of time with…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
This is the virtual meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. Just a reminder that these proceedings are always broadcast on Senedd.tv, and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. And apart from the procedural adaptations…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good afternoon and welcome, everyone. Welcome to the committee meeting this afternoon.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
We have scooted through business there, some of which we will return to in private, but can I simply ask colleagues for their consent now under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting so we can move into private?…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
Which brings us, then, to item 6, papers to note. First of all, amongst these, we have correspondence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution, providing additional information on the codes of Welsh law programme and the proposals for the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional Relations Agreement
And then we will go to item 5, in respect of inter-institutional relations agreements. We have a written statement by the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution in respect of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Common frameworks
It brings us to item No. 4 quite quickly, which is our scrutiny of common frameworks. We have, under this item, first of all, item 4.1, common frameworks, the provisional public health protection and health security common framework. We've had—. I invite you…
, 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. So, colleagues, on the impact assessments, this is something we've already taken up with Welsh Government, so we're awaiting the response, and, on the changes brought in by these regulations, in principle it's the same merits point that…
, 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 No. 3, instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 and 21.3. And we have a made negative resolution instrument, SL(6)135, the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
So, with that, we'll move straight to item No. 2, which, as per normal, is instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Orders 21.2 and 21.3. We have under paper No. 1, a made negative resolution instrument, SL(6)127, the Education (Arrangements…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Prynhawn da. Croeso, bawb. Welcome to the virtual meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. This meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv and the Record of Proceedings will be published as usual. And apart from the usual procedural…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Could I just ask one brief corollary? It's a follow-up to that follow-up, which is this: I was the Minister when we had some frank and open discussions in the public domain with the Environment Agency, when I was the environment Minister, and they never felt…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Yes, it's only a brief follow-up. I notice, Clare, that one of the things that you haven't been doing throughout all of this is whingeing. When there was, for example, a slight uplift in the Environment Agency's budget in England, you didn't suddenly rush and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Llyr, can I just make an observation? It's not a question for a further comment. This is not a criticism of officers working with NRW at all. Everybody who comes into NRW has the best interests of the environment at heart; that's why they come to work with…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Thanks, Chair. This is probably an opportune moment to turn to an area that's interesting us all on the committee and in some ways, you've neatly tried to pre-empt where you think some of our questioning is going to be going on this. You've seen the headlines…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Could I just ask—? One aspect is the transparency of the process you're going through, so that this committee is able to be informed by what you're informed by what you're doing, what you're looking at, what you've decided the important baseline aspects are…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay, sorry—I understand that. You can understand it's a little bit frustrating for the committee, because we want to help as well as challenge Government, and the fact that it's parked into, 'We're going into this—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay, that's helpful. It's a fundamental review. It's not just looking at baselines and what should be delivered; it's a fundamental review of how NRW, in its entirety, is funded from different sources, and what else can be drawn in from other sources as…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Thank you, Chair. And, Minister, we're going to turn to NRW just for a couple of moments here. In your letter to the Chair of the committee, you noted, and you touched on this today, that you're undertaking an exercis examining the allocation of NRW resources…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
A really brief one, thank you, Chair. It's simply to say a genuine heartfelt thanks for the allocation—small in the overall budget—to tackle the remediation work with the local authority in Caerau. But, in relation to the budget, I want to ask the bigger…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Okay. Could I ask just a very brief follow-up, because it covers the whole of marine then? If you extend it beyond the renewables now and the sustainable exploitation of marine renewable resources, extend it into the wider issue of mapping data, the fact that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
I anticipated that that might be the answer. I think the committee would welcome the fact that you're going to look at this in a thorough way, about satisfying—. Because this isn't just an NRW issue. The reason I wanted to come in now, Chair, was the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Okay. Minister, rather than bounce about all over the place, if I can take your minds back to marine, and this interplay between marine renewables and the way we want to sustainably exploit the marine resource against the need to properly map, have the good…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Thanks, Chair. I actually put my hand up on the tail end of the marine section that Janet was on. I'm happy to pursue that, and deal with that now, if you want me to.
