30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Thank you.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
It may have been a little bit unfair, Claire. It's just that it's interesting in terms of the Government's moves now around air quality as well as use of woodlands and forestry, how biomass plays into this, because we still have applications for large-scale…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Jerry, thank you for that. I can see Jenny's got her hand up, Chair, but I wonder: could I just first of all ask Katie if she could respond to that same point about whether we've got our priorities right, what the key things would be? But Claire also, I was…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Thank you, Chair, and I guess I'm going to go straight to the Woodland Trust to open on this. And if I could wrap a couple of questions together for you, Jerry, one is: the knowledge we have of the contribution of woodland and forestry now and what it can do…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 8 - environment and biodiversity: green recovery
Thank you, Chair, and thanks, Jenny, for letting me come in as well. It's just on that point I wanted to pick up. We constantly get told, and we see it as MSs, that environmental education within primary schools and through to secondary schools is so good…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
That's brilliant. Thank you all. Thank you, Chair.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Thanks very much. Clare.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Okay, I can see nodding of heads. Is there anybody who wants to add anything to that? Ruth, and then Clare.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Okay, that's great. A really clear message—get on with the high-level commitments there, and then follow it up then with the greater detail, working with groups. Could I ask you then: does anybody have any thoughts on whether the UK environment Bill's…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Okay, so, if we have to wait for intelligent, good targets, that's the right mechanism. Do we have any dissenting voices from our other panellists or are you all in agreement? Ruth, you wanted to add something.
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 7 - environment and biodiversity: governance and targets
Thanks, Chair. And I noticed how much the Minister's responses to this demand for domestic targets sooner rather than later was moving as we went through the end of the last Senedd and subsequently over the last few months, and it's good to hear that we're…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Yes, indeed. I think you've probably flagged that this might be an area that we need to return to, as a committee, already in your comments. Could you just move on then to the use of nature-based interventions and solutions, not simply in light of what you've…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
And Jeremy, can I just ask for your honest response on how effective you think we are now on catchment approaches to this, genuinely? Is it patchy across Wales? Do we have shining examples or are we still scrabbling towards this?
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Thanks very much, Chair. Yes, and I'll try and bundle some of these together so, Jeremy, you can range large in your answers then. So, listen, the things we want to ask are, first of all: where are we on your actions to address issues identified in the 2020…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 6 - climate change and flooding
Thanks, Chair, and if you want me to, I'm happy to roll into the questions that I had later on flooding as well. But if I could first just address one question to our NRW colleagues, and it's on the question of the quality of your engagement at the moment…
30 September 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Priorities for the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee: Evidence session 5 - climate change
Thank you, Chair. And I'm going to make it easier for you a little bit here because I think most of the areas have been covered by Lord Deben and by Sophie as well, but could I just ask for some brief comments? You're talking about the partnership approach…
28 September 2021 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Environment Bill
I'll do my best, Dirprwy Lywydd. Can I preface my remarks by thanking my committee members for their scrutiny, and our clerking team as well, and note, in advance of my comments, that when our committee does its job well, it will sometimes make for…
28 September 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Shared Prosperity Fund and Levelling-up Fund
Thank you. My apologies, Dirprwy Lywydd. It isn't about badging it either 'UK' or 'Wales'; it's about delivering for the people who we are sent here to represent, and there is a better way to do it than this. We can help. Would you take that message forward?
28 September 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Shared Prosperity Fund and Levelling-up Fund
Dirprwy Lywydd, I declare my interest as a former chair of the regional investment for Wales steering group and as the current chair of the strategic forum for regional investment in Wales, both non-remunerated. That's taken a minute, Chair, to actually say…
28 September 2021 , Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Inter-governmental Relations
First Minister, thank you for the statement but also for this report, which I would thoroughly recommend to any student of current constitutional arrangements looking at this moment in time at what it means for Wales and the UK. I think it is fair to say, as…
28 September 2021 , Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Could I ask for two statements? One of them is actually echoing the point made earlier on—it would be great to get a statement on the timing of the outcome of the extended consultation on school transport. It's been extended to look at this issue over the…
27 September 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
And then, with apologies to the public if you've just tuned in, sometimes these are long sessions in public, but this is a very short one today and we're going into a long private session instead. Item No. 4 is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve…
27 September 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
We move on to item No. 3, papers to note. We have correspondence from Lord Kinnoull and Sir Oliver Heald on the parliamentary partnership assembly there in your batches of papers—paper 2, paper 3, paper 4 and paper 5. So, if I could ask you just to note that…
27 September 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
In which case, if Members are happy, we'll go straight to item No. 2, instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing order 21.2 or 21.3. We have, under paper 1—statutory instruments with clear reports—an affirmative resolution instrument, 2.1…
27 September 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Welcome to this meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. We are meeting in public before we go into a private session later on this afternoon. The normal housekeeping rules, just to remind everybody, are that this meeting is being…
