, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 2
And outside of our budget analysis, it's measuring the outcomes subsequently, and so on, of that-cross Government work. But let me turn to one specific one, the nature recovery action plan. Is that going to be one that we can identify, that there is not only…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 2
Those are really helpful answers. I think it's probably fair to say, unless you want to disagree with me, that there will be some specific budget areas that we can identify that look like mainstreaming of this biodiversity approach. In others, you won't spot…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 2
Or the financial year. Let's not pursue that. You previously told the committee of your ambitions to mainstream biodiversity right across the Welsh Government, and we applaud that as well. But can we just ask, how is that reflected then in the budget? Because…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 2
That's brilliant. Thank you. So, first half of this year—that's the end of June, Chair.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 2
As you say, Claire and Minister, some of these things are already starting to happen in some of the initiatives that are being pursued by the Welsh Government, but we haven't seen that full framework yet. Are you anticipating that you will set out something…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 2
Thanks, Chair. Minister, you've excited the committee by referring to this innovative future finance model that will lever in different modes of finance, including private sector finance, we anticipate. However, the WEL paper suggests that they can't see yet…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
And we don't start from a blank sheet.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Just throwing this at you, as a deep thinker: we often talk about Transport for London as the exemplar who have retained control of the whole thing themselves under the Mayor of London. We will still, in seven years, have a slightly fragmented system…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
The situation you’ve described in terms of using the budget now, where you have TfW’s guiding mind over bus transportation linked to rail, linked to others, but there are local authorities, the Welsh Government, and then the private operators.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
It’s just set aside, but it’s a direct relationship. It’s open book.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
So, there’s a direct relationship as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Yes. It may have been a long answer, but it was an intriguing answer as well, and the Minister is a deep thinker on these transport issues, and I don’t say that in a flattering or condescending way—you genuinely think quite deeply on it. But I’m interested in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Great.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
It's about ensuring that the core can continue. Okay. Good. So, there shouldn't be unrealistic anticipation that this could actually extend beyond the core; this is to maintain what we've currently seen laid out, described as the core.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Just so that I'm clear—just one final question, Chair—on the specifics of the use of the bus network support grant, is that to be used by local authorities within their negotiations, going forward, as part of the core, or is it complementary to the core…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
That's interesting, because it sounded to me then as though that was the legacy of the past conventions of subsidising unprofitable parts of the network for social purposes, but it's not; it's anticipating what might come.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
That's really interesting, that's really interesting. Perhaps I could ask then: the new bus network support grant, how does that fit into this thinking? What's that going to be? Why has that been devised? How does it compliment the other streams? You've…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - part 1
Thank you very much. From one challenging area to another: buses. I always struggle to make sense of these movements about different BEL streams and so on, but we're aware that there has been some quite significant movement, and there's been some…
, Plenary
Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
The Conservative Government is now shutting the doors entirely on primary steel making, and that's the hard reality. There are no romantic words about the steel industry that will make up for that. There is a political choice being made by the Conservative UK…
, Plenary
Urgent Debate: Job losses at Tata Steel and the future of the steel industry in Wales
Primary steel making in Wales, and in the UK, indeed, will be destroyed once and forever by the decision of the UK Government to enable Tata to shut down the blast furnaces in Port Talbot. With the end of primary steel making on these islands, we will be the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
So, colleagues, unless there's anything you want to raise on those—and, of course, we can return to them in private—can I ask whether you're happy now to move into private under Standing Order 17.42 for the rest of the meeting? We are, and we'll move into…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
So, then, we turn to item No. 9, and, again, if there's anything that you want to raise as we go through these, which are papers to note, just let me know. The first of these is item 9.1, where I invite you to note the correspondence with the Counsel General…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
And then we turn to item No. 8, where we have three items here under notifications and correspondence, under the inter-institutional relations agreement. The first of these is 8.1, correspondence from the Minister for Finance and Local Government in relation…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7 - previously considered
So, we turn, then, to item No. 7, instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.7, which we’ve previously considered. And under item number 7.1, we have SL(6)424, 'Separate Collection of Waste Materials for Recycling: A…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3—previously considered
We turn, then, to item No. 6, which are instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3, which we’ve previously considered, and the first of these, item 6.1, is an affirmative resolution instrument, SL(6)425…
