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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Priorities for climate change and rural affairs
Our Nature Networks programme has invested over £30 million over the last two years, with a further round planned. Trees have a vital role to play in locking up carbon from the atmosphere, producing renewable timber resources, providing habitat and shelter…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Priorities for climate change and rural affairs
This portfolio is about shared challenges and about issues that matter to people now and which are also crucial to future generations. This means responding to the climate and nature emergencies, ensuring the sustainable management of natural resources and…
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Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Priorities for climate change and rural affairs
Thank you, Llywydd. Today, I'm very pleased to outline some key priorities in my portfolio. I will be making a further oral statement on 14 May focusing on the future of farming in Wales. I will also provide timely updates on other important matters that are…
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Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Report on performance of Dŵr Cymru'
I thank the committee and I thank the other Members who've contributed.
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Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Report on performance of Dŵr Cymru'
It will come as no surprise to anybody here today that climate change is a real and present danger to the water sector. As we’ve heard today, Wales faces wetter winters, hotter, drier summers, more frequent and intense extreme weather events like drought…
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Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Report on performance of Dŵr Cymru'
Thank you very much to the committee for its report, and to Llyr Gruffydd too for presenting this important debate, and to the other Members who have participated in the debate. Before I begin, I want to note for the record that I was a member of the…
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Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report, 'Report on performance of Dŵr Cymru'
Diolch, Llywydd. Can I just begin just by responding to that final point? We have risen to these challenges before. We’ve done it before. What we did on things like coastal bathing water quality previously, in previous decades, shows that where there’s a…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to strengthen food security
I'll come to a conclusion—sorry. What I wanted to say was: we already have some of this data there, but I'd be very willing to consider, Dirprwy Lywydd, collectively with partners, with ideas from Members, the things we could monitor and agree what…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to strengthen food security
Oh, I apologise.
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to strengthen food security
We all agree here in this debate today that food security is essential, but the question that is posed today is whether legislation and targets is the way to address it. We don't think it is the magic bullet, but we do think there's merit in what many people…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to strengthen food security
I'm pleased of this opportunity to discuss the importance of food security today. My new portfolio is a wide-ranging one, but food is a golden thread through it, and is something that links climate change with rural affairs, so I'd like to thank Janet for…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to strengthen food security
It's a pleasure to follow such good contributions here, wide-ranging contributions.
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill to strengthen food security
Thank you, and I thank Members too.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Absolutely, Julie, and it shows what people power can actually do. And just to say to you I know your track record as a supporter of the reservoir action group, to save and then restore Llanishen and Lisvane reservoirs, and the successful conclusion in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch, Julie. In respect of biodiversity, we are protecting biodiversity through initiatives such as the nature networks, the marine protected areas and the national peatland action programmes, which benefit our terrestrial, freshwater and marine…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I thank you very much. It really is important that we work with everybody, including those animal sanctuaries that I know he has in his own patch, and also across mine and my colleague Sarah Murphy as well, including Hope Rescue. We are committed to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Indeed, Mike, diolch. Our priorities on animal welfare are set out in the 'Animal Welfare Plan for Wales 2021-26'. This includes a timetable for delivery against our programme for government commitments and other animal welfare priorities. Our two-year…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I will be visiting myself, as well as my officials, speaking to farmers, listening to farmers, engaging with them, as well as the wider stakeholders out there. I know he, like me, will also have representations from wildlife and environmental organisations…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
So, I am travelling the length and breadth of Wales.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
We've got to go forward together.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
We have to undertake this journey together.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you very much, Rhun. Over 99.9 per cent of claimants on Ynys Môn have received a basic payment scheme payment, worth a total of £8.3 million. This support is in addition to our Farming Connect service, which this year has registered over 1,000 people…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Well, the Wye and the Usk and the Severn, and some of our other major rivers flowing out of the north and the west, and some of the ones that cross borders, particularly, are some of our greatest challenges, and one of the things that I’m hoping to bring to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you for that supplementary. You are right. As you know, my politics are that I'm Labour and Co-operative—I stress that repeatedly. My approach to doing this stuff is that we all do it together or we don't do it at all, whether it's with farming, whether…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you, Alun. The Welsh Government is taking an integrated catchment river approach to combat river pollution. It's focusing on co-operation and collaboration with all partners. We have an ongoing strong engagement, including Government, regulators and all…
