, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Evidence session on rail delivery and performance
Two an hour.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Evidence session on rail delivery and performance
Some at four an hour. What's it going to?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Evidence session on rail delivery and performance
Jools, that's really helpful. I hadn't meant to come back, but you've made me feel even worse now, because all of the focus in your answer—and I get why—has been on the Heart of Wales line. I suspect I may not be alone. The Maesteg line, which is a commuter…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Evidence session on rail delivery and performance
I wonder if when you do that—and it's good to see you keeping the challenge on—when you go into that additional research, I wonder if you could focus as well on those areas outside of the core Valleys, outside of the core investment infrastructure ones, which…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Evidence session on rail delivery and performance
I don't need to go over many of the areas I was going to, because they've been covered already, but could I ask David—? You wrote back, I think it was in April, to TfW, on a range of issues on performance, asking them how they're going to restore performance…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Evidence session on rail delivery and performance
You've covered a lot of the areas that I wanted to pore on later, but there's one specific thing that comes out of the response to Delyth: this issue of replacement services when issues with—. The reason I'm slightly late for the meeting, by the way, is I…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Evidence session on rail delivery and performance
I'll be really brief, and it'll take out an area I wanted to come back in—
, Plenary
The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2023
Diolch, Llywydd. Indeed, we expedited our scrutiny of these regulations following a request from the Minister. The Welsh Government will know that we will always do our best to accommodate such requests, particularly when the regulations relate to serious and…
, Plenary
The Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes Order 2023
Diolch. Minister, that's really helpful, and I don't want to prolong the debate, but it may be, not necessarily with you—. It's the question of when there are UK instruments being passed that we have clarity on the Welsh Government's view. Implicit within the…
, Plenary
The Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes Order 2023
This is genuinely interesting, Minister, for those who follow the legal and constitutional peculiarities and particulars of these regulations and Orders. I'll explain why. As you've said, the Order establishes Great Britain-wide trading schemes, which will…
, Plenary
The Vehicle Emissions Trading Schemes Order 2023
Thank you once again, Llywydd, and thank you again, Minister. We considered this draft Order on 6 November, and our report and the Welsh Government response are available from today's agenda to inform Members in this evening's debate.
, Plenary
The Building Safety (Description of Higher-Risk Building) (Design and Construction Phase) (Wales) Regulations 2023
These regulations, as the Minister has outlined, define what is meant by a 'higher-risk building' for the purposes of section 120I of the Building Act 1984, which was inserted into the 1984 Act by Part 3 of the Building Safety Act 2022. And, as the Minister…
, Plenary
The Building Safety (Description of Higher-Risk Building) (Design and Construction Phase) (Wales) Regulations 2023
Thank you, Llywydd, and thank you, Minister, also. We considered these regulations on 6 November, and our report and the Welsh Government's response are available from today’s agenda to inform Members in this afternoon’s debate—or, this evening, rather.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Data on Coal Tip Locations
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Can she assure me that she is going to make those representations to the UK Government, in pure fairness, to say, both for the current scheme and for long-term maintenance, that they need to step up to the mark as well, and return some…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Data on Coal Tip Locations
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, there's a brilliant archive piece of Richard Burton doing the rounds at the moment, in which he describes his love for the people of the south Wales Valleys as bordering on idolatry. And I think many of us in this Chamber…
, Plenary
Business Statement and Announcement
Trefnydd, could we have a statement from the Minister for Economy or the tourism Deputy Minister on the 28-day rule on pop-up campsites? Following the consultation on the way forward on the extension of this to 56 days during the latter part of the pandemic…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
We need that strong business succession and legacy planning to grow and develop our self-made Welsh businesses, and part of that could indeed be with employee ownership models, as supported by the Co-operative Party and indeed within our Welsh Labour…
, 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, if you're happy with that—we can return to any of those items, of course, in private—can I ask you whether you're happy, under Standing Order 17.42(vi), to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting, so we can discuss matters now in…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
There are a few items in this section, the first of which is correspondence from the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution in respect of ministerial scrutiny. It's a letter dated 7 November, and in that correspondence he shares information…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
We have notifications and correspondence under the inter-institutional relations agreement, and under the first item in this section, item 4.1, we have a written statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government in respect of the Public Procurement…
, 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
Okay, thank you very much. Colleagues, then, if we're happy to do so, we'll go on to item No. 4.
, 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
I think that makes perfect sense. Adam, did you want to come in on that? No. That's fine. Okay, thank you. Well, colleagues, if you're happy, we will write to seek the view. It may be that the Welsh Government are completely aligned with the view of the UK…
, 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
That's great. Thank you, Kate. Kate, for the benefit of committee members and anybody listening in, can you explain that first point again, because that's slightly novel for us as a committee, and you suggested that we write to the Minister to get the Welsh…
, 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 go on, then, to item No. 3, 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. We have a couple of items here. The first of these is item 3.1, SL(6)396, the Vehicle…
, 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, if you're happy to note those points, and I think we're very content, as a committee, to expedite these because of the urgency of the matter. Thank you.
