, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
There we are. Thank you very much. So, Janet, do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 25?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Thank you, Minister. Janet, would you like to reply to the debate?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Thank you, Jenny. Any other speakers? No. There we are. I therefore call on the Minister to speak. Minister.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Any other Members who wish to contribute? Jenny.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Thank you, Janet. I call on Delyth Jewell now to speak to the amendments in this group as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
So, we'll start, as we do, with group 1. Group 1 relates to the meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products. The lead amendment in this group is amendment 25 in the name of Janet Finch-Saunders. Amendment 61, tabled in the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill - Stage 2 Proceedings
We'll move to the main focus of our meeting this morning, namely Stage 2 proceedings of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill. May I welcome Julie James, the Minister for Climate Change, to our meeting this morning? I will…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
A very warm welcome to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee at the Senedd. This meeting is being held in a hybrid format and, aside from adaptations relating to conducting proceedings in a hybrid format, all other…
, Plenary
The Land Transaction Tax (Tax Bands and Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
We will be supporting these regulations. We feel that they are acceptable rates. It's quite right that Welsh needs are reflected in this way, very different to other parts of the UK, of course. That's the purpose of devolution. It is disappointing, as the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
I think you made a good point there. Okay. Thank you. Diolch.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, and there is reference to maximising and resource efficiency, which may cover that base—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
The farming unions suggested that maybe elements such as productivity should be added to that list. Do you have any thoughts around extending in that direction?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Anthony, anything to add?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. There was one point made earlier in a previous session that there's reference to maximising carbon sequestration and storage, but that maybe there was a need for a more explicit recognition of managing existing, as well as maybe developing additional…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Yes, okay. That evolution is sensible, I suppose; you're right. So, in terms, then, of the list of purposes for what support may be provided towards, that's listed in section 8. Is there anything there that grates or sticks out a little bit, or is there…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, yes, a couple of really important points there. There is scope, of course, as well for Ministers to amend those definitions. I don't know whether you have any particular view as to how appropriate that is.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I'm just wondering what your views are on the powers given to Welsh Ministers to provide support for agriculture and ancillary activities—I always struggle with that word—and what the definitions are, clearly, because the definitions…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Thank you. The nature of any framework Bill is set in the parameters so that Ministers can then go away and draft regulations and fill in the blanks, effectively. So, it's a bit of a broad one, but do you think the balance between what's on…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Okay, well, that was very nearly everything that you're prioritising, so I'm not sure whether that's possible, but I am glad that that engagement and that discussion is happening, because the message is coming through clearly that they need to know what the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Diolch, Llywydd. Afternoon, Minister. Cumulatively, the financial pressures building up in the local government system, of course, are beyond anything, really, that we've probably ever seen before, even though pressures in the current financial year were…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Business rates
Diolch, Llywydd. Can I thank the Member for opening the debate, although I think that today’s debate shouldn’t really be about which part of the UK has the highest or the lowest business rates level? I think, and you acknowledge, that it needs to be a wider…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you to everyone who's contributed. I won't rehearse everything that everyone has said; there's a danger of doing that in closing a debate like this, but I just want to pick up on some of the main themes. Certainly, the…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
We're encouraged by the Welsh Government's future energy grid project, which seeks to proactively influence future grid investment in Wales. The Welsh Government has told us that the action plan produced by the project will set out actions for networks, for…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
So, as the domestic response to the crisis continues to unfold, we know it could, of course, set us on course to either make or break our commitment to reach net zero by 2050. The package of measures announced by the UK Government last month may provide some…
, Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Renewable energy in Wales
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd. It's an honour to present this report of the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee, because at the beginning of the sixth Senedd the committee agreed to undertake a short inquiry into renewable energy…
