, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session 5
I'd like to welcome everybody to our final oral session on fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme, and I'm delighted to welcome the Minister for Social Justice, Jane Hutt, and her officials: Steve Chamberlain, who's the policy lead on domestic energy…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you very much. Lastly, before we proceed to our fuel poverty inquiry, if I drop out of the meeting, then Sarah Murphy will chair the meeting while I try to rejoin.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Prynhawn da, pawb. I'd like to welcome Members and members of the public to the meeting of the Equality and Social Justice Committee. The meeting is being held in public and is broadcast live on Senedd.tv. Simultaneous translation from Welsh to English is…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Okay. Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Okay. Thank you. Lastly, what's your timetable for integrated ticketing? Is it at all possible until we've got rail reregulation, and, if it isn't, how quickly can you do it after we've got the Acts in place?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
I think if you could just send us a written note on the progress in delivering the three metro systems, along with potential problems, and also where you're at with your costed five-year delivery plan with key milestones—if you could write to us about that. I…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Three quick questions, really. One is on the south-east Wales metro system. On the one hand, things are happening at pace—you know, not a million miles away from where I'm sitting, we've got dedicated cycle lanes going in to create the Cardiff to Newport…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Okay. So, beyond talking to employers in shops, how much are you using the data we all hold in our hands every time we leave the house?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Just going back to the Net Zero Wales requirement to have a 57 per cent reduction in car journeys, and your need to balance cost and availability of spaces, what work are you doing with stakeholders, for example employers or schools, to not just understand…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Did you want to bring Janet in at this point?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Okay. Because obviously they don't look that brilliant when you look at them: 7 per cent by public transport up from 5 per cent by 2030, and only 13 per cent by 2040. It doesn't feel that challenging, but I appreciate in some areas, in rural areas, that may…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
I think it was really about, 'Are these ambitious enough?' Obviously, I represent Cardiff Central, an urban environment. I appreciate that the challenges are rather different in a rural environment, but in an urban environment, people who continue to travel…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
We'll come back to some of the issues around the Burns review and the metro schemes slightly later in the agenda. I just wanted to ask you, in light of what you've just said that COVID is marginal to your plans, which is really interesting, whether you think…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay. You're a very new organisation, so what progress have you made on reducing your dependence on external consultants, given that they always come at a price that's much more than if you had this expertise internally?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
How do we know that neither Keolis nor Amey are driven to encourage you to try out innovative things that may or may not work in the hope that, in five years' time, they'll know much better what they shouldn't be spending money on and that it might look like…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
I saw that from your paper, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Thank you very much. I just wanted to ask you a little bit about how you manage your relationships with both outside consultants and all the other stakeholders that you need to do business with. Obviously, there's a lot hanging on the success of your company…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservative Debate: The Armed Forces
That's particularly interesting to know, and do you therefore think that there really is an important role for logistical regiments to play in assisting the Polish people and others, to get our part played by bringing people from Ukraine as soon as possible?
, Plenary
Welsh Conservative Debate: The Armed Forces
My grandfather served in the first world war, and he was serving in all the worst places with the highest numbers of casualties. He was in the Royal Artillery, which was, obviously, bringing the guns up to the front with the use of horses, which illustrates…
, Plenary
Debate: The General Principles of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
This is a very interesting debate on a very important subject. My constituency has three universities in it, so it's very important that we get this right, not just for individual areas but also for the whole of Wales, because obviously we need to ensure that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you very much. We've already rehearsed the disruption to food markets occurring as a result of Brexit and the war in Ukraine, but I just want to focus on what we can do here in Wales, because one of the most important agreements within the co-operation…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
4. What is the Minister’s strategy for increasing the amount of vegetables grown in Wales? OQ57746
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
Or is this another pot of money that you might be able to identify in the future? Because there's no doubt that the decarbonisation of our homes in the context of the absolutely spiralling energy, oil and gas costs is something that we simply can't hang…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2022-23
Back to reality, I'd very much like to commend the finance Minister's management of the budget, because this could hardly be a more difficult set of circumstances that the people of Wales are facing. To enable you to identify £162 million extra for the…
