4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Yes, and would that amended rate of £40-80 make it more viable for you as authorities to actually pursue the matter, or is that not really the case?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Yes. Just to flag up, we've got between five and 10 minutes left and we need to get on to soundscapes.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Right, who wants to respond to this one?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Yes, yes—please. Okay, thank you very much. Right, Jenny, are we moving on to the next set?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Do you cycle them, Joyce? That's the question.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Matthew, would you like to pick up on this one?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Tom, you wanted to come in, as well.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Matthew, did you want to come in? And then Tom.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
But there's no in-principle opposition to Ministers having expanded powers to create charging schemes.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Who wants to pick up on this, first of all? Trunk road charging. Ian.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Thank you for that. There's more that we could ask, but I think that we need to move on because there are other significant areas in the Bill, and Joyce is going to take us through one of them.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Thank you. I'm mindful of time, because there are another two considerable areas that we wish to cover. Matthew, if you want to just come in on this finally.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
There are four, I think, in total.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
That's interesting. Thank you very much for that. I think we'll move on, then, to smoke control, if that's okay. I'm just wondering what your views are on the change from criminal to civil sanctions for smoke control areas, and whether that shift in relation…
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
I think Tom wanted to come in, or at least was about to before Steve spoke.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Can I just throw one other thing at you, maybe, before we move on to the next area? It's something that was suggested in an earlier session today by some other witnesses. They were suggesting that there's a need for a local air quality strategy or plan…
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
That was a point I was going to make, because clearly you don't hold all the levers, do you, so how can you be accountable to a compliant state when much of it is out of your control?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
So, you're not maybe at the moment clear on the scale of the intervention expected of yourselves, because that would dictate the timescale, wouldn't it, for coming to that agreement.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Any view on the actions and standards, and to agree a date with the Minister? I mean there's a potential there for conflict, I'd imagine, is there? Tom.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Yes, okay. There we are. Thank you very much. Janet, was there anything else that you wanted to raise under this section?
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Yes.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Excellent. Thank you, Ian. Steven.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Ian had his hand up anyway, so I don't know, Ian, if you want to address that, then we might come to Steve, and then I think we'll need to move on because the clock is ticking.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Joyce, you wanted to come in with a brief point, and then I'll come to Ian.
4 Mai 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bil yr Amgylchedd (Ansawdd Aer a Seinweddau) (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 3
Sorry, Janet, but before we go on, I just want to bring Matthew in to say a little bit about this. Obviously, the challenge in terms of resourcing and skills availability will be different depending on your local authority context. I'm just interested to know…
