3 Hydref 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
We always go through the balance, obviously. So, we always look to see whether it's proportionate, there's a public interest consideration, that the impact on any individual business is proportionate and just considering the outcome, and we've come to the…
3 Hydref 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Yes, thank you very much. Obviously, the purpose of the Bill is to protect the environment by tackling the negative impacts from plastic pollution on our environment, on our wildlife, and our health and well-being. We're satisfied the Bill is compatible with…
3 Hydref 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Yes.
3 Hydref 2022 , Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Y Bil Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru): Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog
Thank you very much, Huw, diolch yn fawr. Yes, of course, we're satisfied that the Bill is within the Senedd's competence, and we're very pleased to say that that's also the Llywydd's assessment.
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
We just don't think it will be necessary to do that. We're going to do a behaviour and engagement change programme with local government. We're working very closely with the WLGA and, using our carrier bag example, we think that it will not be necessary. But…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, I think I answered this when I was talking to Ken, Janet.
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes.
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
It is just to do with the internal logic of the list, and to make sure that the list is the same, regardless of what you're talking about.
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
No, it's correct. I'm going to bring Nick in to explain it in glorious legal detail, Chair, but, basically, the exemption provides that cups or takeaway food containers that are not made of expanded or foamed extruded polystyrene are exempt. So, that means…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
No, I haven't answered this one yet, Ken. As I say, it remains our view that the Senedd's competence to legislate is not limited by the Bill, but we do recognise that the internal market Act allows the Secretary of State to ask the Office for the Internal…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, there are a number of options open to us for this. The Counsel General has the power to refer a Bill to the Supreme Court under section 112 of the Government of Wales Act 2006. The decision to exercise that power will be taken by the Counsel General in…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, section 3 of the Bill provides Welsh Ministers with the regulation-making power to add further items to the table in Schedule 1 of the Bill, as we've discussed all the way through this session. And since the Senedd can confer a power on the Welsh…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Well, same answer, I'm afraid. We don't think we require the exclusion. We can ban lids for cups or takeaway food containers because it's within our devolved competence to do so, and the Act doesn't bite.
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Same answer—none—because we don't think it bites, basically.
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, we don't consider we need exclusions from the UK internal market Act for all the reasons I've just set out, so we're not relying on the statutory instrument that excluded certain single-use plastic products in the UK internal market Act. We say that we…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Very straightforwardly, Janet, because we think the Senedd's competence to legislate about devolved matters is not limited by the UK internal market Act, because we take the view that it cannot limit the devolution settlement, and therefore it doesn't impact…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, that’s a very, very good question, of course. In terms of enforcement tools, the committee will be aware that section 6 of the Bill makes the offence under section 5 a summary offence, triable in a magistrates’ court, and there’s an unlimited fine that’s…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, indeed. We take a very firm view that the Bill is within the Senedd's competence; the Llywydd has made that assessment as well. The committee will have seen the Counsel General's written statement on 18 August that the Supreme Court rejected our…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, absolutely. I touched a little bit on this when I was answering Joyce's question, didn't I? The first product that we're going to be applying the principles of extended producer responsibility to is, obviously, packaging waste. I know the committee has…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, absolutely, Ken. We've had a lot of conversations with our local authorities about this. These enforcement duties are very closely related to the enforcement duties that they already have; they have a large number already of environmental…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
I'm being reminded by one of my officials that on the list is glitter and plastic coat-hangers—they were very high up the list as well. I ought to have remembered that. Large numbers of schoolchildren—I have to say, I really love talking to schoolchildren…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
So, what we've done is, rather than make a whole new regime of reporting, we've added the requirement under section 79(2) of the Government of Wales Act 2006, so that Welsh Ministers are required to report on the consideration as to whether they plan to add…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, absolutely, Joyce, and we've been working very hard with the group Size of Wales, actually, on making sure that, for example, Wales doesn't deforest other parts of the world by relying on products from elsewhere on the planet in substitute for our own…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
We've looked a lot at alternatives—so, compostable paper straws, cardboard balloon sticks, paper plates, wooden cutlery, bamboo cotton buds—and all of those have been widely available in the market for a very, very long time. There are lots of other…
29 Medi 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil Drafft Diogelu'r Amgylchedd (Cynhyrchion Plastig Untro) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Gian Marco, probably, is it?
