12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
No, that's been great, Huw. Thanks very much. As I say, we made a number of commitments to you to keep you informed, and we'll just make sure that we do that. The clerk, I know from long experience, will write me a nice note telling me what I've promised the…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
As I say, Huw, we're keeping a careful eye on all of those things. One of the reasons that we want to use the UK-wide piece for this is the whole issue around single plastics and so on. We want to avoid a situation in which we can't ban single plastics, but…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
We're still working with all the other administrations in the UK, all the other Governments in the UK, to determine the requirements that arise from the trade and co-operation agreement. We do have an environmental governance Bill on the stocks, but it's just…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you very much, Rhys. Diolch yn fawr. I agree entirely with that. It would be lovely if we could get UK Government Bills to be in Welsh, and that's an ongoing conversation, as I know you know. We don't currently have a proposed general environment Bill…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Actually, Peter, I think this is a very good example of a Bill that's worked very well. As you heard, there's been complete input from officials all the way through. Lesley had a number of meetings with various Ministers in the previous Senedd. I will…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you.
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
I'm going to ask Bernadette, I think, to talk to you about the detail of this, but my understanding is that we tabled the amendment clause on 9 June, and we expect the amendment to be debated today. But, Bernadette, do you want to—? You're nodding at me…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, I'm happy to keep the Senedd informed. I'm very happy to give that commitment, Rhys, as I say. But just to be really clear with the committee, because I don't want any misunderstanding, there is a difference between information and consent. So, for…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Again, it's for things that have a UK-wide reach, if you like, and it seems to us sensible to have the same provision all the way through. But as I've just said, Huw, if we were consenting to that, we'd have been involved in the discussion and policy…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, I'd be happy to do that. So, we're obviously involved in a range of policy discussions and decisions in advance, so it's perfectly possible to keep the Senedd involved and I'm happy to do that.
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, that's what we're proposing. So, they're concurrent; we're working on mirrored provisions, basically, so that each legislature has a chance to look at it, but they're mirrored across the UK.
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, I don't know if you want Bernadette to explain that again. Bernadette is the person you want to go to if you want the ins and outs of the detail.
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, I'll just break them down a little bit, Huw, if that's ok, because there's quite a raft of them. So, for clauses 49 to 50, extended producer responsibility, and 51 to 53, which are resource efficiency, information and the deposit return schemes, although…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, when these clauses were put together—I well remember it in the last Senedd, actually—it wasn't clear whether the UK would be required to transpose the single-use plastic directives from the EU across into UK law to meet the various obligations on…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, thank you, Jayne. The thinking there is simply that the only thing that that regulation is doing is substituting one figure for another figure. So, an affirmative procedure seems disproportionate for just updating a figure, effectively. We're required to…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, again, Huw, I was not the Minister in charge of this in the previous Senedd, so I've spoken to Lesley Griffiths who was and she confirmed that the relationship had been good. I have officials on the call who I know have personal experience of it. I'm…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, I completely agree with that, Huw, and obviously we go through that very carefully. We'd much prefer to do it in the Senedd ourselves, but, as I say, there are a number of things to be weighed in the balance here, and in this particular instance we've…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
The honest truth here is we've been really up against it in legislation terms. I've spent more time in my first few weeks in this portfolio trying to sort out how on earth we will resource the enormous amount of legislation that we have coming forward through…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
So, we've made sure that the vast majority of the regulation-making powers are subject to the affirmative procedure, and therefore will be subject to debate and scrutiny either in Parliament or the Senedd, if the Welsh Ministers use the regulation-making…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
I'm really, really happy to do that, Peter and Chair. We're obviously working on the timetable now for all the regulations, so very, very happy to share that with the committee. We'll share what we've got so far, but I'm sure we've got a complete set by the…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
The future Welsh Government policy referred to, Peter—and by the way, lovely to see you in your new role in the committee—the future powers, due to COVID and various other various dreadful things we've all lived through, have become current policy pretty…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Again, that is dependent on whether the UK Government is prepared to move off the Third Reading in the House of Lords and so on. That might or might not give us a little bit of time. It's technically possible to amend the Bill at Report Stage, as I'm sure the…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, thank you, Jayne. It's something obviously of concern to us. Obviously, we don't have any control over the parliamentary scrutiny timetable in the UK, but I have written to the Secretary of State for agriculture, fisheries and food to request that the…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Okay. So, it's not two tests; it's the way the tests are applied for different purposes. So, I'll go through it, Jayne, and then I'm happy to try and explain or expand, if you like. So, the consent memorandum is drafted and laid in accordance with the…
12 Gorffennaf 2021 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Memorandwm Cydsyniad Deddfwriaethol ar gyfer Bil yr Amgylchedd: Sesiwn dystiolaeth
Yes, thank you, Rhys. That's a very good point, of course. We still have a range of legislation that covers pan-UK arrangements. We always look to see, when introducing Bills of our own into the Senedd, whether we can include carve-outs—so, taking UK…
