, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 11: Part 3 – Applying for Infrastructure Consent: Application procedure (Amendments 197, 198, 54, 7, 162, 163, 164, 8, 123, 55, 9, 10, 143, 56, 144, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
Thank you very much, Chair. This is a relatively large group of amendments and I'm going to restrict my comments to the two amendments in my name, and I will allow other Members in attendance to cover the other amendments in the group. Amendment 197 provides…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
In that case, then, no.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
Yes, with the permission of the committee.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
Yes. Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
Right, okay. Well, if it depends, then I think maybe there is some role for something in the Bill, but shall we just press pause on that one? I would appreciate the ability to speak further with the Minister and officials to try and understand how we can…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
Yes. Again, I'm very grateful for committee members' contributions and the Minister's remarks, and I'll try and go through them in order in relation to the set of amendments that I presented. So, I think, in relation to the first amendment, 192, which seeks…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
Just to refer to some of the other amendments, I believe that amendment 96 in the name of Janet Finch-Saunders seeks—if I've read it correctly—to achieve the same aim, but in another manner. If the Minister accepts that objective, perhaps we'll hear which is…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 3: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Energy (Amendments 192, 96, 37, 193, 194, 196, 139, 140)
Thank you very much, Chair. The aim of amendment 192, as has been described in the explanatory note, is to ensure that underground electric lines are treated equally to those above-ground electric lines in the context of the Bill. That is, that they can be…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Local ownership of energy projects (Amendments 191, 195)
I think it would be, certainly in the context of further discussions, useful to look at the 15 years of experience they've had in Denmark—successfully, despite protestations in Denmark, I'm sure. Denmark, of course, had a very, very large community-owned…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Local ownership of energy projects (Amendments 191, 195)
I'm very grateful to everyone who has responded, and to the Minister for those remarks. I'll try and go through them all in turn. I think 'intriguing' is a good word, and I think that, certainly, the intention in laying the amendments, at this stage, was to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Local ownership of energy projects (Amendments 191, 195)
It is focused deliberately on electricity-generating projects. That's where the policy debate and focus around the question of local ownership is concentrated at this stage. But the principle, of course, could be applied in other areas. I'll respond to Joel's…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Local ownership of energy projects (Amendments 191, 195)
And there's also an issue of democracy and accountability that is very relevant to this Bill too in terms of the planning system and so on, because there is a feeling—and I will try and come up with a Welsh term—of peripheralisation. It's an ugly word for an…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 2: Part 1 – Significant Infrastructure Projects: Local ownership of energy projects (Amendments 191, 195)
I'm grateful, Chair, and I thank you for the opportunity to move these amendments this morning. Amendment 191 and 195 together would mean, if they were accepted by the committee, that electricity generation stations, as defined under the Bill, would only be…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
In tabling amendments to the Bill, I have already noted that I live in the Towy valley. Some of the provisions of the Bill and the amendments could impact the area, so I want that to be placed on the record.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
Okay, thank you very much. They were all the questions I had, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
And finally, how is the Welsh Government ensuring that agencies operate under the agency framework in order to comply fully with their contract arrangements to align pay with the minimum rate of teachers' pay?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
With in-year changes to teachers' pay during 2022-24 having being backdated to the start of the academic year, did supply teachers on the agency framework receive the equivalent backdated pay according to your information?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
Could I ask why the Welsh Government decided to not include supply teachers employed through agencies within the remit of the review by the Welsh independent pay review body?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
Thank you. Could I turn to my final subject this morning, namely the pay and conditions of supply teachers? Could I start by asking you when the review of the independent Welsh pay review body of supply teachers' pay and conditions will be published? And…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
Yes, and just—. In addition to data gathering through the agencies, in terms of the training that they provide, do you also gather data on the number of supply teachers who take advantage of professional learning through the provision of the Education…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
Thank you, Chair. Just in terms of that data and that process of data gathering, does that allow us to say what percentage of supply teachers do receive training? We have figures, for example, for comparison, from the NASUWT, which showed that, among the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
Okay. Thank you very much for that. Turning, therefore, to professional learning and development, how is access to the national professional learning entitlement working in practice under the new agency framework?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
In terms of the regulations you did refer to, do you think that the current regulations are sufficient as they are, or is there room to consider strengthening the regulations further?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session with the Welsh Government: Covering Teachers' Absence
That relates to provision, doesn't it, but the question relates specifically to quality within the provision.
