, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
No.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, it's simply to pick up on that. I want to give you maximum opportunity here to describe, in terms of the agriculture sector, how you're going to take these, again, clever, subtle interventions carrying you along, and accelerate them at a rate of knots—at…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Right, that's interesting.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
So, there are some real subtle and clever interventions there that you're doing, but, going back to your overall approach to the committee today, you will accept that the ratcheting up that you need to do in woodland, as with many other sectors, is…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay, it's good to understand that. Can I just turn to woodland creation, but also woodland conservation, because conserving the best of what we've got, including mature and ancient woodlands, is as important in terms of carbon sinks as growing the new…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much. And I wonder, Chair, just picking up on the points you were making, if I could just ask one straightforward question. The challenge already of—. You’re optimistic we'll get to carbon budget 2—we'll struggle—and, though it's achievable, if…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, please.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
UK Climate Change Committee 'Progress report: Reducing emissions in Wales' - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much, Chair. One of the things that might help with that level of holding individual Members to account will be the extension of the TheyWorkForYou website to cover the Senedd as well as the UK Parliament, and people will be able to look at…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill
Llywydd, our report focuses on three issues: the Welsh Government’s approach to legislating; the provisions in the Bill that we consider require the Senedd’s consent; and the memorandum of understanding that the Welsh Government has signed with the UK…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill
Thank you, Llywydd. My committee reported on the legislative consent memorandum on the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill last week. We asked the Minister to clarify a number of issues before this afternoon’s debate and I thank the Minister…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Infrastructure (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I really do welcome this statement today because of the impact that this could have potentially on us achieving our net-zero targets, but also because of the potential impact on driving those green jobs as well, energy security, and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Orders 17.42(vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
And therefore, under item 6, if Members are happy—under Standing Order 17.42, would you be happy now to move to private session and seek to exclude the public for the remainder of this meeting? You're happy to do so. I'm looking to James as well. Yes, we are…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Correspondence relating to the Welsh Government's elective home education statutory guidance
And then item 5 is a separate item to note in our public session. I invite Members to note the several items of correspondence received that relate to the Welsh Government's elective home education guidance, which was published by the Minister for education…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Papers to note
So, we move on to papers to note under item No. 4. A couple of items here, the first of which is the written evidence submitted by the Bevan Foundation to the Children, Young People, and Education Committee and the Equality and Social Justice Committee in…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Welcome to this afternoon's session—welcome back. We've just taken evidence in our earlier session from the Office for the Internal Market. We are now moving on to our regular items. But just a short announcement to colleagues, because I know they'll be…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Inter-institutional relations agreement
Welcome back to this afternoon's public session.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Okay. Colleagues, can I suggest that, whilst our guests leave us now, we take a short adjournment? And we're also going to do some swapping over here as well. So, we'll just take a short break and we'll come back at 14:40.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
We should've pulled up a chair and put you on the front. Thank you very much for coming in front of us today and for your evidence. As per normal, we'll send you the transcript just to check through for accuracy and so on. We look forward to having you back…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
There we are. Very good. Colleagues, can I just briefly check is there anything else that you'd like to ask? No. Okay. In which case, can I thank you both very much—sorry, not both, the three of you, with one silent partner at the back there?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Well, one of the things, to pick up on Alun's point, that we might be able to do is, subsequently, with, perhaps, a behind-the-scenes discussion with you, is to liaise with our other sister committees as well here and to see where we can help you a little…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
What are those areas of data deficiency? You touched on them earlier, but where do you need help? What gaps are you trying to fill? It's interesting that you referred that there's a deficiency on the England side on some of this data. What's going on there?…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
Yes. Brilliant. Alun.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
That's helpful to know. I think our assessment and that of other committees in the UK Parliament and elsewhere is that the common frameworks, whilst there'd been some frustration at getting them up to speed and getting all of them developed, and some issues…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Evidence session with the Office for the Internal Market
That's useful.
