, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Workforce
Thanks, Steffan. And my next question is going to be looking at the different groups, so maybe I'll come back to you then and we can expand on that issue of harder-to-reach groups and getting the money out there. Deborah.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Cost of Living - Workforce
Thank you, Chair, and good morning to the panel. Noting, of course, that many of the levers here are not devolved, could I begin by asking how effective you think that the cost-of-living support already announced by the Welsh and UK Governments is likely to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
I think I should also declare that I'm a member of the Bevan Foundation.
, Plenary
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv): Decarbonising public sector pensions
Thank you to my colleague Jack Sargeant for tabling today's motion on pensions divestment. I'm really pleased to speak in support of this important issue, and indeed it's something I've long agreed is essential. For example, I hosted a drop-in with Friends of…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Welsh in education workforce
Thank you for your statement, Minister. It's really encouraging to see you focusing on recruiting Welsh-speaking teachers and progressing the Welsh language skills of the current teaching workforce. If we're to achieve our ambitious goal of 1 million Welsh…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister, for that answer. Recent statistics show that Wales was the only part of the UK to maintain its excellent recycling rates during the course of the pandemic, and I'd like to thank every Welsh citizen and council worker who did their…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
3. What are the Welsh Government's priorities for further increasing recycling rates? OQ58108
, Plenary
90-second Statements
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Today is International Museum Day. First celebrated in 1977, last year over 37,000 museums in over 150 countries took part. The day aims to raise awareness of museums as arenas for cultural exchange, where we enrich our understanding…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Reducing vulnerability to flood risk and the independent review of the 2020-21 flooding
Thank you for your statement, Minister, and I'd also like to place on record my thanks to you for the work that you've done to date to work with communities to reduce vulnerability to the increased risk of flooding that we see as a result of climate change…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you for that answer, Minister. For over 70 years now, Aberdare park has been home to the world-renowned national motorcycle road races. These races are incredibly important to Aberdare and to the Cynon Valley, injecting many thousands of pounds into the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
4. What action is the Welsh Government taking to promote tourism within the south Wales valleys? OQ57997
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
Thank you, Chair. Minister, my question was around advice to farmers, and I think you've covered that by talking about Farming Connect and the newsletters that you send out as well. So, unless there's anything that you wanted to add to that, can I just ask…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
Thank you, Minister. That's all from me on this now, Chair. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
Thank you. And a final question from me on this. In Scotland, they've got the general binding rules approach, which appears, from my research, to be quite a pragmatic way of doing things in order to manage workload and to target the repeat offenders. Is this…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
NRW actually specified to us they felt that they needed at least 60 extra staff in order to cope with the minimum extra workload that could be generated by this, but ideally they were looking at about 200. Are those kinds of figures involved in the discussion?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
One thing, as a committee, that we've been really keen to ensure in our previous deliberations on the evidence is that NRW is sufficiently resourced in order to enforce the regulations. I know that's something that we've written to you about previously. So…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Review of the Agricultural Pollution Regulations
Thanks, Chair. Good morning, Minister.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Thank you very much. Thank you, both. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Thank you, Roger. I've been busy making notes—there are some good areas for us to follow up on there. So, Elin, your views, please.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Are there any countries that we can learn from with regard to actually finding accurate levels of TB in wildlife?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Can I just interject there, Roger, because that's such an important point?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bovine TB panel—Farming Unions
Thank you very much, Chair. Good morning—I had to check the time there—good morning, panel; still just in the morning. I just wanted to ask some questions about other countries and the way that they deal with this very difficult problem of TB in cattle, and…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you very much, James. Thank you, everyone, and that concludes my questioning, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Bovine TB panel—Academics
Thank you, Gareth. And James.
