8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 2
I'm just very intrigued with what you're saying. I get your argument—don't take this in the wrong way—from your theoretical, systems-based analysis, but we know that there are some good examples of best practice of spatial land management with some farmers in…
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 2
Sorry—marine conservation zones can be used for nature recovery, depending on their management and their status and—
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 2
Sorry—and this is not just cross-governmental, but cross-sectoral.
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 2
Sorry, I'd better move on to the question I was supposed to ask. All this is really interesting and I want to go back over the last half an hour, but I can't. In terms of the deep dive, can you tell me something about how we keep the momentum going on that…
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 2
Sorry, we've gone off on a right diversion now, Chair; I'm really sorry.
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 2
Yes, indeed. Just to say, it took me back to a book I read, it must have been more than a decade ago, by Professor Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea, and where we started from and where we've got to and how we have to work with the science to…
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
Yes, thanks, Chair. So, could I ask to what extent the nature networks fund is delivering towards the resilience of the national site network, and whether that national site network looks similar in strength to the Natura 2000 network?
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
Thanks.
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
Chair, can I just ask Annie—? I just want to be frank and clear on this. The SFS, following the commitments that the Minister has given about what will follow in regulations and the explanatory memorandum, would you describe this as—and I am putting the words…
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
Very briefly. And don't give me a full answer; it would be good if you could write to us on it. But linked to do what you're saying, I think the committee would be interested in knowing from bolting down these issues on biodiversity, in marine mapping, what…
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
Brilliant. The second thing is, as a short follow-up: have you given any thought at all to—I know this seems a flip question—the question of the title of such a Bill? The reason that I ask this is because you can set it out in principles on the face of the…
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
But your preference would be one, though, even it were to amend other pieces of legislation, such as the environment Act, such as the current air quality and soundscapes Bill going through: one piece of legislation that dealt with nature recovery and…
8 June 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Biodiversity and the nature emergency - evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. Can I just do a quick follow-up on the questioning there? Do you see this as being one piece of legislation coming forward that encompasses the governance and the targets and the biodiversity and nature recovery, or two separate pieces? What…
7 June 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Group 12: Review of the impact and effectiveness of the Health Service Procurement (Wales) Act (Amendments 10, 12)
Sorry, Gareth. I welcome the Minister's willingness to actually work on an appropriate mechanism to bring forward a review. I just want to seek clarity on one other issue. I assume, Gareth, that the nature of the first amendment that you had down in a series…
7 June 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Group 9: Operation of regulations under section 10A(1) (Amendments 17, 19, 20, 26, 28)
I'm not one of the political 'hues'. [Laughter.] I just wanted to seek clarity on amendment No. 17. If the legal advice that the Minister is receiving is that putting something into this Bill takes us straying into the areas of employment law, my…
7 June 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Group 3: Health service procurement principles and governance (Amendments 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 25)
I just want to seek to clarify—I'm doing this because I haven't been on the committee hearing all the evidence, but from a legal point of view of the drafting of this. There is nothing within this Bill that forces us down the road of wholesale privatisation…
7 June 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Group 3: Health service procurement principles and governance (Amendments 14, 15, 16, 18, 22, 25)
Thank you, Chair. Just briefly, I wonder if we can ask the Minister, just in her response to these interventions, whether she can just give additional assurance of the trajectory of this current Government. Because I do understand Rhun's points here—it's…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'The Welsh Government’s EV charging infrastructure strategy and action plan'
I just wonder whether, with that approach that the Minister is suggesting that he takes, when we come to the work of the taskforce and sitting down with them, is that a point at which he'll be able to explain to the Senedd what those resources allow in…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'The Welsh Government’s EV charging infrastructure strategy and action plan'
Minister, will you give way on that point?
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'The Welsh Government’s EV charging infrastructure strategy and action plan'
It's a pleasure to take part in this debate, and can I just begin by thanking colleagues on the committee for their work, jointly with all of us, in taking evidence, and also, to those who gave evidence, and to our Chair as well, and to our clerking team and…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
Thank you, Minister. I recently visited Pencoed Primary School—another example of the largest ever investment in schools in Ogmore, and across Wales, indeed. As I arrived, I saw 30 or more bikes and scooters in the all-weather storage outside the school. The…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
2. How is the Minister working with the Minister for Climate Change to promote active travel in schools? OQ59598
6 June 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
I'd just like to confirm to him, and to reassure Darren, that we're not seeking simply for the Welsh Government to be able to give consent when this trespasses onto clearly devolved competencies, but actually for this Senedd not to be bypassed. So, Counsel…
6 June 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Would the Counsel General give way?
6 June 2023 , Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
That is why our committee still has severe concerns over this Bill. Diolch yn fawr.
