, 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 again, Kate. Colleagues, are there any comments? If not, are we happy to agree that? We are. Thank you. That takes us on to our final item in this section. It's an affirmative resolution instrument under item 3.6, SL(6)425, the Council Tax…
, 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 again, Kate. Happy to agree that, colleagues? Thank you very much. That takes us on, then, to item 3.5, SL(6)427, the Building Control Profession (Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2023. Again, there's a draft report. These regulations are made under the…
, 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, Kate. Fairly straightforward, I think, colleagues. Any comments, or are we happy to agree that? We're happy to agree that, Kate, and we will wait for the Welsh Government response. That takes us on, under the same section here, to item 3.4…
, 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, Kate. Colleagues, do you have any observations on this? Our focus is very much on the merits and technical points, as always, with these statutory instruments. If not, we will proceed, and if we're happy to agree those reporting points…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
We have instruments that do raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Orders 21.2 or 21.3. Now, for the first item on this, I'm going to suggest that we group two related statutory instruments for convenience—item 3.1 and item 3.2, which refer…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
A regular item here: instruments that raise no reporting issues under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3. We'll begin, then, with a made negative resolution instrument under item 2.1, and this is SL(6)423, the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (Wales) (Amendment)…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
And just, as well, I think all of us as a committee would like to pass our thanks on to James as well for his work on this committee. It may be—who knows—that we see him back in front of us at some point with the private Member's Bill as well. So, hopefully…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome to this virtual meeting of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee. It's our first meeting back after the Christmas recess, and before we start in full with our regular agenda, can I just welcome our new member, Sam Kurtz? Sam, welcome to…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everyone, and good afternoon.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
Just say 'disappointing', and sit down.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
You can just say 'disappointing' and sit down.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
Let me put my cards on the table: I've firstly got to say that every single farm is different, every single farm and every water catchment is different and so on, but what we've now got put forward—it'll come forward in regulations as well—those regulations…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
I thank the Conservatives for introducing this debate and, Minister, I'd say to you that, probably, the first three points there I'm broadly in agreement with, particularly point 3 of the motion: 'Celebrates the role that family farms play in supporting the…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
I think I'm hearing an extremely good point, but would you note as well that the opening up of some of these trade deals completely undermines the approach that we've been taking in Wales, which is to say to our farmers, 'If you invest in higher standards of…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
Cefin, would you give way on that point?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
My point is exactly that. There is access to cheap capital for some farmers, but that cheap capital lines them up in a certain direction and that direction is consolidation, rather than succession to family members or others, a tenant farmer who wants to come…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
Peter, you make a very good point and I agree with you on the necessity of maintaining small and medium-scale family farms because of all the reasons that have been laid out. Something is broken in the market, where, increasingly now, we see the consolidation…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives' Debate: Agriculture
Would you give way on that point?
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip
I know the Minister will recall fondly her visit to the Safe Haven within Maesteg, and meeting the families and those that were being hosted, our Ukrainian friends, in Maesteg, as well. But could I ask her, on a very practical basis, what advice, what…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Great.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Can I just ask you: you referred to a deliverability plan in your evidence to us—is that something that you can share with us? Because I suspect that would be to full of interesting detail.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Sometimes, Minister, this committee does give a bit of a bashing to Government, and one of the things recently we did was around electrical vehicle charging. We do realise, by the way, that the area of the country that has the greatest provision of EV points…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Well, the technical, but also the behavioural stuff, please, because that's what we failed on. Sorry.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
It's the cycle to work, cycle to college—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
That's greater Amsterdam, the 20 mph, but they are indeed giving that exemption for buses, but with that dedicated infrastructure. So that, I suspect, is where we will end up, or I would encourage you, perhaps, to end up. On active travel, again it's been…
