, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Can I just ask a—?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
In the Coal Authority's 2016 best practice guidance on restoration liability assessments for surface coal mines, it recommended that such mines should have an annual restoration liability assessment to ensure that liability is fully secured. Have these…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Can I just cut in? Sorry. It seems that a lot is happening. So, do you think that the targets will be achieved by 2030? You did say you were a bit concerned. Are you going to have to look at changing some of the policies, do you think?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
How achievable are the net-zero targets for the public sector to be achieved by 2030? Do you think you might have to row back on that target?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Just on recycling, there was an issue with local authorities to deliver this—you know, municipal waste—post COVID, that a lot of the recycling ended up being collected really quickly to deal with it or dealt with in different ways, and I think it's trying to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
I'm concerned also about the HyNet proposal, the carbon capture and underground storage offshore, and the acidification of the waters that that could possibly bring. I don't think that's been looked into enough, so I'll be writing to you about that as well…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Local government and wider, working with farmers and other organisations, such as the wildlife trusts, and public organisations as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Okay. I was going to ask you a question about working in partnership with local government. Funding is quite restricted, isn't it, as well, and they're achieving a lot for their buck with building social housing and the recycling, which is under your remit…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Can I just—?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Climate Change scrutiny with the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Well, my question was: how are you going to work across portfolios to make sure you achieve these targets? Do you feel like you might be taking a lead role, then—it sounds like it today—to hold their feet to the fire as well to make sure that they continue…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Thank you for the answer, Cabinet Secretary. As we all learned through COVID, breaking chains of infection is important, and vaccination, as well as hygiene, is a key part of this. Studies have shown a reduction in transmission in vaccinated cattle, with a…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
8. Will the Cabinet Secretary provide an update on the planned deployment of the bovine TB cattle vaccine? OQ61107
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Can I just come back on that? When we met the creative industries and the gaming sector a fortnight ago, they were talking about a big conference in San Francisco they all go to, and they were saying, 'We'd love one in Wales; we'd like Wales to be a hub.'…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Do you think that the UK Government takes the creative and arts sector seriously, or is the thing just investment in the big industries, rather than the importance of culture and arts? That's a big question.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
And what I feel as well is that Wales, as a Celtic nation, we've done things differently here like the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, and other small nations and countries are really interested in what we're doing. And when you say we're…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Okay, thank you. It seems like we need to go back to the smooth movement of people and equipment, and everything. We heard from one performer, actually somebody who organised for larger bands and performers, how instead of taking equipment from the UK and…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
I think what was also discussed was to develop amongst themselves that cultural understanding and learning from other countries within the EU as well, and expanding their cultural depth and knowledge, and musical knowledge or whatever, it's really important…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
And issues for performers—we've heard a lot from those regarding moving across countries. Even if they could move themselves, it's moving the goods that was such a huge issue, lack of consistency at borders, the complication of filling in forms, trying to…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
The people involved in the creative industries.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
Thank you. In evidence to the inquiry, the Minister described steps taken by the UK Government to support the sector, including providing practical support, simplified requirements and various funding initiatives. From the evidence we've heard from the…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Culture and the new relationship with the European Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Government (8)
—but the equal importance they should be giving to a devolved nation, to Wales, to have that—. If they have that governance and that power of rejoining or having that partnership and we're not allowed to do it directly, and we haven't got the funding or…
