12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Yes. How is it being reflected in the next generation of local development plans, as it's such a major driver of economic activity? Tourism—it could be used as a pump-primer for why people need to stop in my community, spend money in my hostelries where…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
So, let's go back to these destination charging places. For example, the doctor's surgery, the shop, work, train stations—those sorts of places—which is where this metal box is going to get stationary. You can't charge while you're going along, not from a…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Okay. Roisin, have you got anything further you'd like to—?
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
So, what particular regulations might be required to wake up the private sector, whose main job it is to provide places where people charge vehicles? At the moment, it's done in a petrol station, but what are the regulations that are needed to ensure that…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Okay. There are also some consumer rights issues, in that Mr Wong mentioned that one in 10 charging points don't work, and, if it was one in 10 vehicles not working, everybody would be up in arms. Why people should be paying with money for something they…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Totally. So, that takes me back to Mr Ogden's evidence, where you talk about the best practice standards that have been recommended by Government, but they're not enforceable in most cases. Clearly, it feels like there's an urgency around putting in some…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Okay. So, one of the things mentioned by David Wong, in the previous evidence session, was that in England and Scotland there are some charging points that just go back underneath the street pavement when they're not in use, so that they're not interfering…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Okay. Because if we're going to have the planning infrastructure for 2050, we need to do it now; we can't be undoing it all again and doing it. So, Roisin, how does your organisation get round this problem? Do you have contact with them? Or are you doing this…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Okay.
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Fine. That's okay. But you've not been—. TfW's not been having conversations with the national infrastructure commission.
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Well, low-hanging fruit in terms of doing things that are easy to do now, rather than thinking a bit more to the—[Inaudible.]
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 2
Yes, okay. Yes. Also, I wanted to pick up on the stranded assets point. There's a carbon cost to doing something that we then rip up. What role does the national infrastructure commission play in assisting you to plan for the future—that's their job—when, as…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Why are hotels not seizing the moment.
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Yes, landscape architects.
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
One point I just wanted to highlight from your evidence, which is the faster you charge an EV and the more often, the faster you wear down its batteries. There's a carbon emissions issue here as well as a cost, and I just wondered how much that is factored…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
I'm sure we don't, but surely it's a conversation that needs to be had with people like you to ensure that this isn't acceptable, not least from the point of view of people who are visually impaired or with pushchairs, and the like.
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
Okay. What about the landscape architects? What are they doing to contribute to improving the visual appearance of our streets by integrating lighting with charging?
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
An important point. Places like Cardiff and Newport have already decarbonised a lot of their bus fleet, so others will need to follow, as DPD has shown. But, beyond that, what are the planning policies we need to think of to ensure that we just don't add to…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
In the short time left, I want to talk about following on from what Huw was asking, how we properly use the planning policy and the building regs to ensure that we're building not just for 2030, but for 2050. Small-scale, innovative housing projects in rural…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
I just wanted to pick up on the point about where we are today, particularly with Paul Bevan, about what conversations have you had with communities that are off grid about generating micro renewable projects so that they can generate some income for their…
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
But you’ll have to change your model is what I’m suggesting.
12 January 2023 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Electric vehicle charging - evidence session 1
I represent a Cardiff constituency and I can’t imagine residents wanting commercial vehicles being charged in a residential street. Good luck on trying to find a place to do it, anyway. So don’t you and others need to change your business model so that you…
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Paper(s) to note
Thank you.
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Paper(s) to note
I'm pleased to see that the food supplement and food for specific groups regulations was a paper today, and I think it requires further discussion. I don't know whether you want to do that in private session, or I'm happy to tell you what my views are in…
11 January 2023 , Health and Social Care Committee
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Thank you.
