, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
So, anything more is itemised, and there's a price tag, potentially, attached to it.
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Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Yes. And that's the advantage for you, I suppose, isn't it? You can effectively itemise.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Sure. To what extent is this going to be a dynamic, ongoing process from now on, or is it going to be revisited every few years?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
I don't want us to just not come back to the baseline review, because it's been exercising the minds of many members of this committee for a long time. Why has it taken so long? Now, I appreciate that it's an intricate process and it needs to be done…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Yes, well, we're not afraid of details, don't worry. [Laughter.] In fact, the more detail the better.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
So, the SLAs wouldn't be publicly available as such, would they—sorry?
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Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Yes. But there we are—one day at a time. Okay. Thank you for that. I'll now invite Janet to lead us on the next set of questions.
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Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Because it will hold a lot of things back if we—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
There's a wider issue there, I think, that we as a committee might want to consider.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Yes, it is.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
And these are, you would hope, growth sectors as well, regardless of—. We will need more boots on the ground.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Sure. Yes, absolutely. Huw, you wanted to come in on that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Sure. Okay. As I say, we'll come back to that in greater detail in a minute. Before moving on, I just wanted to ask you about the performance report and some of the measures that were classed as red at the end of 2021-22, but also end of quarter 2 2022-23…
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Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
At least, I’d imagine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
We’ll come on to the baseline review in detail later on, but I’m just wondering, in terms of the corporate plan, really, to what extent is that being tempered by the funding reality? Is that limiting ambition and aspiration?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Right. Welcome back to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee at Senedd Cymru. We will move now to this final item for this afternoon, which is annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales. We welcome our witnesses: Clare…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 6,7,8,9,10 and 12 of today's meeting
We'll pause for a moment, as we move into private session.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 6,7,8,9,10 and 12 of today's meeting
There we are. Okay. Thank you very much.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 6,7,8,9,10 and 12 of today's meeting
So, the next item is to resolve to exclude the public and to move into private session. So, I propose in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(vi) and (ix) that the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of the meeting, except, of course, for…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Papers to note
Our next item then is to note a few papers that we have before us. There are three papers in total. Are we happy to note them together? Yes. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
There are choices available indeed, and your work certainly helps enrich our considerations and deliberations around some of those. So, thank you, Graham, for joining us. It's been really useful. And, as I said earlier on, much of what you've shared with us…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
And there are Members who've actually travelled on buses to engage with their constituents as well, and used the opportunity to have those chats and discussions. Very, very briefly, Jenny, because we are out of time.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Okay. Huw, then, just to conclude. And Janet, very briefly, just to conclude.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Okay, good. Joyce, anything there?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Yes. Okay. Thank you. Huw.
