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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
On that note, I'm afraid we have run out of time. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you very much to our witnesses for your attendance this morning. We've had a lot of very useful information there. It may be, actually, that we might write and ask for a few…
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To David, maybe, there’s this whole issue around planning policy and, clearly, we’re coming back all the time to this wider cultural change that is happening within society, which needs to happen, and needs to be encouraged and facilitated. Now, planning…
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Do we have any landscape architects on the panel?
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Okay, shall we start with Professor Cipcigan, maybe, on any comments on building regs and planning policy, and how that can help?
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Okay, thank you for that. Right, Jenny.
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Huw wants to come in briefly, and then we'll come on to Jenny.
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you. We've got about 20 minutes left, and I know that there are at least three other areas of discussion that we wish to cover. So, I'll invite Heledd now, then, to take us on to the next area. Heledd.
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Okay. Who wants to respond to that? I think there's potentially a one-word answer, but we might want to probe a little bit further than that. Any takers? David.
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Okay, thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr. Janet, I'm coming back to you. You had a further question.
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Okay. I'm conscious that we're up against time, but if you want to come in briefly.
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Yes, sorry—please, come in.
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No, no, you carry on.
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Okay. So, grid constraints, then. Who wants to come in on this? Professor Cipcigan.
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Okay. You touched on grid there. We're going to move on to that in a moment. I just want to give anybody else who wanted to come on this potentially an opportunity. No. If not, okay, we'll move on, then. Janet.
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Okay. Dr Bevan.
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Okay. Let's invite some of our virtual witnesses, if I can describe them as that, first of all here—Professor Cipcigan, maybe.
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Thank you. We’ll move on to Huw.
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And there’s going to be a big focus on that later on. But yes, thank you for that—fair comment. Joyce.
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Thank you. We’re getting a lot of good stuff here from all directions. I know Jenny wants to come in, Joyce wants to come in, and then maybe brief responses to both and then we’ll have to move on to Huw.
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you very much. I'm conscious, Olly Craughan, that we haven't given you an opportunity yet. I'd imagine, just picking up on what Joyce said earlier about distribution, if there's a density of charge points, let's say, along the M4, along the A55…
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Thank you for that. There have been concerns as well that some of the KPI deadlines haven't been met either, so I'd imagine, on the back of what you've just said, Professor Cipcigan, that you'd be concerned, for example, that the establishment of the…
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Thank you. Professor Cipcigan, would you like to add anything?
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Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
I'd like to bring some of the other witnesses in on this, if I may. Paul Bevan, first of all.
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Yes, and take us on to the next line of questioning there. I'm keen to bring other witnesses in. They've been very patient, in fairness. But ,Joyce, yes, go on. Carry on, and then we'll bring the others in.
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Joyce.
