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
Certainly, Joyce. So, I'm going to start this explanation and then I'm going to hand over to one of my officials to give you a much more detailed one. Basically, we've used the European Commission's 'Life Cycle Inventories of Single Use Plastic Products and…
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 think they're right to be concerned, if we're honest. This is a very complicated area and there are lots of different opinions about what constitutes 'oxo-degradable' and so on. So, there's a lot of research going on; there's no settled scientific…
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. Polystyrene is a form of plastic anyway, so—.
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. This is about plastics, this Bill, at the moment. I'll be interested in what the committee has to say about that, because the whole point about this is that we're attempting to prohibit both the littering and the environmental damage of single-use plastic…
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 will have the ability to add things to the list of banned items that's in the Bill. To some extent, Janet, we're in the hands of your committee about how easy that is, because what procedure we use to add them in will be very much part of the…
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, I agree, Janet. I'm really committed to getting wet wipes onto this list. One of the really good things about the way that this legislation is framed is that it gives us the opportunity to add further products in the future. And I thought it was a very…
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
On that point, actually, just to say that we have been widely helping people access the research that shows a very different outcome from the widely accepted one. I had a very good meeting with WRAP earlier this week, in which we were discussing that, for…
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, I know what you mean. Thanks very much, Delyth. We've included it because there was overwhelming support for the inclusion in the consultation, and a lot of respondents wanted us to include many more products as well. So, on that basis, as a result of…
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
Thank you.
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've been signalling our policy intent about single-use products for quite a long time. I think you'd have had to have been living in a bit of a cave in Wales not to understand that this was coming. So, we're not intending to give a grace period for…
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
Go on, Nick.
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
Diolch, Gadeirydd. It's very nice to be with you this morning. So, we think the practical effect of the definitions that we've used is exactly the same, but the drafting isn't identical as we've sought to clarify the text or to remove wording we considered…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Apologies. Thank you, John. Bye.
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Thank you very much, and apologies for the coughing.
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
As you know, John, we've been running the optimised retrofit programme for quite a considerable time now. And one of the things that we've always wanted to do is to make sure that the learning coming out of the ORP, as we call it, is picked up when we spread…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Sorry about the coughing. [Laughter.]
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Certainly. So, we commissioned work around improving the board's terms of reference and its governance, responding to the changing operating environment for RSLs since the establishment in 2016. So, again, Jayne, this was a board that was established with the…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Yes, thanks, Jayne. We're absolutely committed to continually improving the way that regulation operates to achieve the outcomes of protecting tenants and investment in social housing, but, more importantly, really, to achieve an overall better outcome for…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Well, we will do a proper 'lessons learned' once we’ve actually got it implemented, but I’m tempted to be a bit irreverent here, Sam, and say, ‘Don’t try and do a fundamental rejig of the entire housing market in an Act of the Senedd.' I think if we were…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Okay, so—. Well, it’s interesting to know how the calibration works. So, I’ve asked for Rent Smart Wales’s data to be interrogated a little bit more, Sam, so we can understand rather better what the disparity between the two—. I've met with Propertymark, and…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
I’m not sure where you’re getting that figure from, Sam, because that’s not the figure that we have. I’ve just asked for a review of the figures we’ve got from Rent Smart Wales, but the figures I currently have are, between January and August this year, 3,233…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
I'm going to ask Emma to come back to you on that, Sam, if you don't mind, because I'm afraid I can't remember the answer to it, I'll be absolutely honest. So, Emma.
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Thanks, Sam. So, we developed the proposal, as we always do, in collaboration with the sector, and the consultation that you're quoting one of the responses to allows stakeholders the opportunity to give us their views on the current proposals, and obviously…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
Certainly. It's very much an important part of the co-operation agreement and part of the programme for government. In January 2021, we consulted on the building safety White Paper, which set out our proposals for comprehensive reform of the legislation that…
29 Medi 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Sesiwn graffu ar waith y Gweinidog - Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd
We've always taken a slightly different view of this than the English Government, as it is for this purpose. We've always maintained that the people who created this issue should be the people who are responsible for rectifying it. Leaseholders in Wales…
