, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Janet. I'm committed to a resilient marine environment covering the entire Welsh marine zone. Our programme for government commits us to a marine ecosystem recovery and enhancement programme. Supporting this aim is the designation process for…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
So, I'm happy to respond just partly, Llywydd. Indeed, it's not quite on the point of the original question, but, Joel, I'm absolutely aware of the issues about off-road biking, particularly scramblers, and so on, as well as mountain biking. The short answer…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, Vikki, I absolutely welcome the decision made by NRW. Of course, NRW makes the decision on behalf of the Welsh Government on its public land, so a very large amount of public land is now covered by the decision not to allow trail hunting on that land. We…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Vikki. The Natural Resources Wales decision to ban trail hunting in the Welsh Government woodland estate was taken following the outcome of a court case against a senior leader of the Masters of Foxhounds Association, and in response to it.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Llywydd, the Deputy Minister is the Minister responsible for clean air, so I wonder if he could be unmuted.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Absolutely, Delyth. I completely agree that the Crown Estate should be devolved to Wales. It's completely outrageous that it's devolved to Scotland and not to us, and that, indeed, the returns from the Crown Estate go straight back to HM Treasury. They don't…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Janet. Once again, you've conflated about five different things there, so I don't intend to proceed to unpick it. The green Brexit you talk about, of course, had we just stayed inside the European governance arrangements, we wouldn't have needed to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
So, again, Janet, we're very keen indeed to work with a group of scientists to understand exactly what is meant by recovery and restoration. So, again, these aren't just about the targets; these are about the processes that we need to put in place in order to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Janet. So, at the time we declared the nature emergency, I made it extremely plain that we were looking to see what the outcome of COP15 was before we set the fundamental statutory targets for nature recovery—so, actually, the halt of nature…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Jane. We absolutely are aware of the real cost-of-living crisis, particularly for people on off-grid oil, as you say. Just to say, we are currently consulting on the next iteration of the Warm Homes programme—so, to encourage everyone to respond to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Paul. I am aware of the exhibition you have because I am a proud member of the mailing list for Oriel y Parc there—a place I often visit on my holidays—so I was aware of it. I'm actually hoping to go down and see the exhibition shortly. Yes, of…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Paul. The Welsh Government is fully committed to addressing the causes and impacts of climate change. We have raised awareness as part of our recent COP Cymru and Wales Climate Week events, and we continue to work closely with local authorities to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Well, Carolyn, the way that that works at the moment is, obviously, we allocate an unhypothecated capital grant to local authorities as part of their overall funding settlement. We try very hard not to hypothecate funding in the way that you suggest, because…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, thank you, Gareth. I appreciate the difficulties caused to the local road network, but it is the responsibility of the local authority to maintain and ensure that resilience of those assets. We haven't yet had a funding bid from Denbighshire regarding…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Gareth. Denbighshire were successful in their application for £440,000-worth of works for post-storm repairs to flood and drainage assets as a result of storm Christoph at various locations. Post-storm repairs were 100 per cent funded and the grant…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Diolch.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Thanks. So, yes, I hope I'm not giving too much away for the team as well, but I think we all danced with joy when we finally got to the point of being able to announce that we were doing it. I don't want to count my chickens before they've hatched, or…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
This is all about our place-making agenda, Alun. I do represent the city centre, absolutely, but my constituency is big enough to also represent a number of out-of-town pretty run-down shopping centres in some ways. So, this is all about how we get the…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
No, not in capital—capital is in short supply right across the entire piece. We've been, I would say, very much short-changed by the UK Government in terms of our capital budgets, absolutely. But they've got a generous revenue settlement, and the idea is to…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Absolutely, Alun. We could all spend £100 million, I'm sure, in a number of towns. So, this is not intended to be the only thing we spend in Transforming Towns; this is to assist our local authority partners to focus their investments as well. Local…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
We have actually worked with some of the councils, Mabon, since some of those examples have been brought to our attention, to make sure that they do understand the powers that they have in existing legislation. I won't go into that now, but we have had…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
For the moment, absolutely, but, of course, the whole point of ORP is to find out what works and how much it costs. So, as we go forward, we'll be able to look at that. We're still working on the announcement for the next stage of the Welsh housing quality…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
So, absolutely. So, the social rent calculation is always a heartrending one, because we know that people are facing one of the biggest squeezes on their standards of living ever, really—in our lifetime, certainly—and it's a really careful balance, isn't it…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Okay. That's quite a complex set of things right there. So, we haven't made any decision about how the funding is going to be worked out yet, because we're in the process of doing the building passport system. At this point in time, we're still trying to…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes, for sure. So, it's not something we're considering right now, because we're still at the beginning of the ORP programme, but absolutely we will have to look at both incentives and sticks to get people to move. And just to say as well that it's not going…
