, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay. Sir David.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Thank you. There's a lot to take in from both Clare and Ceri's comments there. Huw wants to come in, and I think Carolyn as well is particularly interested in the NVZ stuff, but we'll go to Huw first.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
There we are. Okay, thank you for that clarity. Janet.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Thank you, Carolyn. I just wanted to ask about the new corporate plan. Clearly, you have or had a corporate plan, which was I think from 2018 running up to 2022. It's been rolled on to 2023, so I don't know if you can update us on when we might expect to see…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Diolch. There we are. Okay. Thank you for that clarity. Carolyn.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Okay. Before I bring Carolyn in, I'm picking up quite a positive vibe around a bespoke remit letter for flooding. Is that something that you particularly want to replicate across other areas, or would it get a bit too complicated then?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
So, just for clarity, then, the term of Government letter or remit letter, will that replace annual remit letters, or will they still be drawn up—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Thank you. Yes, you mentioned the remit letter. I was just wondering, where are we at in terms of an updated or a concurrent—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Ceri wants to come in as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
I do apologise—I must have hit the mute button. We have around 90 minutes for this session, so we will move immediately to questions, if that's okay with you, and I'll ask Janet Finch-Saunders to ask the first question. Janet.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Welcome back to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee at the Senedd. We've reached item 4 on our agenda, which is our annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales. This is the first annual scrutiny session of this Senedd…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
There we are. Okay, well, that brings us to the end of our allocated time. So, can I thank the Minister and the Deputy Minister, and your officials, for the evidence you've given us this morning? There are a few other areas that we didn't manage to cover, but…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Thank you. You mentioned biodiversity, that leads us nicely on to Carolyn's question.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
No, no, you're right. Although they would probably decry the fact that they had to spend any income in year, as opposed to smoothing it out, maybe, over three to five years, which is another discussion, I'm sure, you're having with them, and another issue…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
For renewables, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Thank you, Minister. Just for avoidance of doubt, Natural Resources Wales are actually returning receipts, aren't they? I think they returned nearly £10 million last year.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Thank you. Jenny.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Before bringing Jenny in, can I just make one point, or ask one question? You mentioned the baseline exercise and then identifying what add-ons are required. Of course, we know from evidence that Natural Resources Wales have given to another committee…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you. We'll move on now then to Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
No, you're okay. You're okay—if you keep it brief, it's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Delyth, you wanted to come in on this as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
There we are. Coastal. Okay. Thank you for that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Thank you very much. Does Gian Marco wish to remind us what the acronym stands for? We're testing him now as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
There we are. Thank you very much. Okay, we'll move on to our next area, then, of questioning, which is flooding, and I'll invite Janet Finch-Saunders to kick us off.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
That's a very important point to make. Thank you, Minister. Carolyn, did you want to conclude on this?
