, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill
My question to you, Minister, is: when you exercise the second part of this, will you give adequate time, or more time, certainly, to scrutinise what will be in that framework so that we can all be assured that those things that I've just outlined happening…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: The Health Service Procurement (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I thank you, Minister, for your statement. As you say, the first stage of this is a framework Bill, and the second stage will be where the detail lies. When I put the term 'flexible procurement in the NHS' and the Tories together, I…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
It's just that we have got one of the forward-thinking universities working in Aberystwyth, in terms of the plants that we plant—that wasn't very imaginative, was it—and how they will be tolerant either of drought or flood. So, I just would like to know what…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Yes. Can I, Chair?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
The reason I said at the top that I was going to talk about drought and flooding is because I'm just interested to know—if we're doing retrospective monitoring, are we—we must be—doing some rainfall monitoring, and the change of pattern. Because we keep…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Indeed. So, we'd like an update, quite frankly, on the delay to the publication of the section 18 flood report, and the impact that has or hasn't had on risk management authorities' ability to plan flood risk activity.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
I'm going to ask you two questions: one on drought, one on flooding. [Laughter.]
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
I do, which is no great surprise, is it? So, in terms of agricultural pollution, I'm going to marry it up with the previous question about water quality, because the two things clearly go together. So, you mentioned £1 million this year and £1.5 million next…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
It's Huw now.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Well, a lot of mine was around the draft budget, the proposals and the gap between. So, unless you've got anything else that you'd like to point us to, I suppose my question has been answered.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Okay. Of course, the other socioeconomic barrier, we've touched on lots of them, is the affordability, and you've touched on it, of actually getting on a bus. Have you broken down in your research who's most affected by that? Those people who are still using…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Yes, socioeconomic benefits. We've touched on them, but I want to touch on them in terms of active travel as well. I live in a town where most people couldn't cycle up the hill if they tried—you'd have to be extremely fit—because that's the way Wales is. And…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Deregulation of buses simply means at the moment that those companies that are best placed cream off the profitable and leave big gaps, particularly in Wales, of the non-profit-making bus routes for us to fill the gap and—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Yes, just two very quick ones. Congestion charging is going to reduce, if you reduce the number of vehicles, so I'm wondering what work you've done in terms of the revenue that's been brought in by congestion charges in the early days—of course, it would have…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
Working from home.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Bus and coach net zero - briefing by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT)
I just wonder, in terms of, not just modal change, but behaviour change, and the fact that people work from home now more than they ever did, whether any of that was factored in, as the cost-benefit of perhaps investing lots of money in transport that people…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
And are you satisfied—this is the final question from me—that there is sufficient benefit as well as risk of the introduction of a carbon border adjustment mechanism in the UK?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
I'm going to move on now to the UK emissions trading scheme and proposed carbon border adjustment mechanisms—quite a mouthful—and your views on whether the approach of the UK ETS balances decarbonisation ambition with ensuring UK industry remains healthy and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
I want to ask about the progress report and whether you think that a lack of an annual Wales-specific progress report acts as a barrier to effective external monitoring and scrutiny of policy delivery, which we've just spent a lot of time talking about, and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
What we do see—. I live close to Milford Haven, and what you see is lots of investment in the skills in that area, mainly engineering, and you could replicate that throughout Wales in different engineering-specific areas. And the schools are very much on…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Good morning. Of course, the one thing you have to do is invest in carbon reduction. So, could you give us your views on attracting private investment to support the actions that we need to carry out, especially given the restrictions on everybody's budgets…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Free ports
I thank you for taking the intervention. You're just doing this mixing up again. We could have all that investment, the Tory Government could be very generous and give us all this money that they're promising, but we wouldn't have to lose the tax take from…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Free ports
I knew you'd sink to the lowest denominator. So, the answer, clearly, to that question is 'no'. You're trying to mix things up here, quite deliberately, and that's why you've tabled this debate. Because you, ideologically, think it's a good idea to give free…
