, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
That's great, and I'll be very quick on this. But we read this week, Minister, if you noticed—I think it was covered in the Western Mail—that Amsterdam is now following the Welsh example on a city-wide basis.
, 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
Good. Good
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
The People's Buses of Ogmore could bid in.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
It's on the models that will be flowing from the White Paper into the legislation. I'm sure there will be provision within that for municipal models. I think there are 10 or a dozen within the UK at the moment; there might be a few more that are, essentially…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
One day.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes. I've finished my questions, but I'll just make an observation. I had to drive my brother down to Heathrow Airport the other day because he had multiple cases. He's emigrating, he's moving, so I had to drive him down, as it was the only option, in my…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Are you optimistic that, with the changes that we've talked about, the investment strategy that we have, we will do that? We'll come back to active travel later on, but we've massively ramped up—I know we've got temporary issues with it—investment in active…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Could I turn to the issue of modal shift? Because underpinning all this talk about rail and so on is to do with what we're trying to do with net zero, climate change and all of that, and healthy well-being lifestyles and so on. So, two…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
It's in terms of the investigation; I'm glad you raised it. Will Welsh Government be submitting views to that investigation into Wales and western, and, if so, will you be able to share those with the committee so that we're aware of your concerns, because it…
, 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
I'm sure it's in the public domain already, but it may be helpful if you shared that with the committee—that pipeline and the phasing of it.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
But the corollary of that is that releasing the potential of those schemes does rely on that funding being made available.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
It's just a short question, because I was really taken by your comment earlier on, Minister, and yours also, repeating this line that the strategic decision is to hold our nerve and we can do good things. Now, this becomes really critical if—. And this isn't…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
Good, good.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Transport scrutiny with the Minister for Climate Change
It is an interesting area, Minister—my apologies if you've covered what I'm going to ask already, but—the 15 minutes is an interesting thing to look at. But the other interesting thing is compensation if a rail operator fails to get you to your destination…
, Plenary
Statutory Instrument Consent Motion on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you, Minister, for your comprehensive remarks there. I'll be quite brief, but my intention is to send you off with a cheery message for Christmas as well. We laid our report on the Welsh Government’s memorandum in respect of…
, Plenary
The Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2023
An earlier version of these regulations was initially laid on 7 November, which we considered on 20 November. Our report on the earlier version, as the Minister said, identified some reporting points, four in total, to which the Government very helpfully…
, Plenary
The Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2023
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. We considered these draft regulations yesterday, and our report is available from today's agenda.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
That covers all the business we have in public session, colleagues. We've lots to discuss in private, so can I ask you if, under Standing Order 17.42, you're happy to resolve to exclude the public now for the remaining of the meeting? You are, so if I could…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
These are the papers to note. There are several here, but the first one is item 6.1, where we have correspondence to note from the Petitions Committee, drawing our attention to a petition regarding the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. We also note…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We go on, then, to item 5: notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement. We begin with item 5.1, where we have correspondence from the Minister for Climate Change in relation to a meeting of the Interministerial Group for…
, 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'll turn, then, to item 4, which is instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3 that we've previously considered. The first of these is item 4.1, SL(6)406, the Prohibition on the Incineration, or the Deposit…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Instruments that raise issues to be reported to the Senedd under Standing Order 21.2 or 21.3
Okay, thank you. Are you okay with those points, colleagues? We are, okay. Just to note that this is being debated in Plenary tomorrow, so we might have some short comments to make on that as a committee.
