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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Gian Marco, did you want to come in on that?
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Minister. Over to you, Jayne.
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Finally from me, before I pass over to Jayne. Do you think that it will have a bigger impact on less affluent communities, with regard to takeaways and that sort of food—areas that could potentially be more inclined to be going to those sorts of…
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Thank you very much. A couple of last questions from me. Following on from what you were saying there, we know of the inflationary pressure and other pressures such as the energy price rises—what sort of consideration have you given to that? Obviously, you…
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Thank you. Gian Marco.
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
The RIA notes that the price elasticity of the products is unknown, how does that impact the potential costs that businesses and consumers might incur?
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Can you hear me now, Minister?
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Yes. Yes, we can.
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Yes, we're still here.
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
That would possibly lead me on to how you factored in the cost for businesses to ethically source the non-plastic alternative products.
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Okay, thank you very much. I think Mike wants to come in.
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Thank you very much. The regulatory impact assessment states that there will be a cost to consumers and businesses of about £17.1 million to replace single-use plastic items with non-plastic alternatives. Can you explain to us how that was calculated, or one…
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
In the policy team. Sorry; you're a different Louise. There we are. Wonderful. Thank you very much. We've got about three quarters of an hour, so I'm going to crack on, if I'm able to. The first part is to explore the estimated costs, if we're able to, to…
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Yes, she's here.
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
This scrutiny session is around the single-use plastics Bill. We've got the Minister with us. Welcome, Minister. I wonder if you'd be able to introduce yourself and then maybe your officials would be able to either introduce themselves, or for you to do so…
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Financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
A warm welcome back to everyone. We are now going to move on to item 11, and this is the financial implications of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill.
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 10 and 12
According to Standing Order 17.42, the committee now resolves to go into private. Thank you.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
Thank you very much. Diolch yn fawr.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
Sleeping is overrated. [Laughter.] Thank you so much for this session. I'm so glad you've made this time available for us, because it helps us keep things on track with the budget process, because it is a long time since our priorities debate to when the…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
And any extra lines of information would be very gratefully received, so that we can really get to grips with some of the challenges that you face, obviously, when you're coming to making tough decisions. Obviously, if we're able to see that level of detail…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
And I'll add to the wishlist: could we have more detail of line-by-line spending and taxation? Usually, Mike dusts off his speech and says he'd like to see a Plaid Cymru budget and a Conservative budget as well. Well, it would be great to have some more…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
I think Mike wants to come in.
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
Obviously, we're going to have this budget and everything, but it'll be looking at the budget round of 2024-25, potentially, as a time when we'll have had the time to even consider changing things, if we need to change things. I welcome the dialogue so that…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
Ah, right, okay. There we are. Fine. And I've only got a couple of things to look at before we finish. Looking beyond, I suppose, what we're in at the moment, we've been discussing for a little while the budget protocol and possibly how do we move things…
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Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24—Pre-budget scrutiny
Thanks. With those inter-parliamentary relationships and inter-government relationships, have you had the finance Ministers group, the quadrilateral—did you say that had happened yet? Or is that happening soon? I can't remember.
