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Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
Certainly, Alun. I can answer them right now. We have two companies that have come to pass in Wales. One is a directly-owned state energy developer. The people of Wales will directly own the energy produced from the state-owned energy developer, and will…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
I certainly will.
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
I also share the sentiment in the Plaid Cymru motion that the evidence continues to build for the need to further accelerate the pace of decarbonisation, and that we should be looking to UN experts, as well as our own climate change committee, to inform our…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I very much welcome the opportunity to respond to this debate today. I share the disappointment expressed in the Plaid Cymru motion, that the most recent contracts for difference allocation round failed to attract a single bidder from…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Green energy
Formally.
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. Forgive me, Llywydd; I'm just going to go through the history again because I do think it’s important, and an apology is due from the Welsh Government as well, just to be clear. But I do want to put that in context, and I did do that in the…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I move the motion. I'm grateful for the opportunity today to move this motion on the UK Energy Bill, and to the Members for agreeing to suspend Standing Orders to enable us to proceed today. I fully appreciate the challenges this Bill has…
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Motion to Suspend Standing Orders
I formally move the motion.
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21
Diolch, Huw. We fund Natural Resources Wales and the local authorities to engage in this sort of activity, as I was saying to Heledd, throughout the year. There is on the NRW website something called 'What to do before, during or after a flood'—pretty…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21
Thank you, Vikki. It's a very good question and it was really good to have the meeting with you about the specific issues that were raised in your constituency. And that's a really interesting one, isn't it, because that kind of flash-flood-type worry that we…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21
Diolch, Heledd. You made a number of very important points there. I think Professor Evans has been very clear that what she’s looked at is a part of a jigsaw, and that the jigsaw is complex, and that we need to get all parts of the jigsaw right so that we…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21
Well, in that case, Darren, I won't bother to answer it. Shall we go to the next person? Apparently, I'll say nothing new.
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21
Thank you, Janet. I'm not absolutely certain quite what you're asking me there. I'm not going to set up a national agency for flooding. I'm absolutely convinced that the people who have suffered flooding over the last few years—and, indeed, before that—would…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I am pleased to announce the publication of Professor Elwen Evans KC’s independent review of local government section 19 and Natural Resources Wales reports into extreme flooding in the winter of 2020 and 2021. This review was…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The Crown Estate
It's very clear from the latest annual report and accounts that the Crown Estate benefits significantly from its assets in Wales and our offshore waters. It's also clear that the United Kingdom as a whole benefits from the income that is generated and the…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: The Crown Estate
Diolch, Llywydd. I welcome the opportunity to respond to this debate, and I welcome the motion from Plaid Cymru, which the Government will support in full. As the first country in the world to declare a climate emergency, we are working to lower our carbon…
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Topical Questions
What we have is a privatised utility, effectively, and it would not be my particular view that that was a very good model for providing any kind of essential utility, but that's what we've got. I have no formal role in determining executive pay for Wales's…
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Topical Questions
Jenny, that's a very good point. As part of the summit process, as we call it, working on the phosphate problem—although the phosphate problem is just one of the problems that's being looked at—we are looking at a variety of solutions, one of which is exactly…
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Topical Questions
Thank you, Delyth. I think it is really important to get the facts straight. So, I completely agree with you about the hard Brexit and the difficulties of that, but just to be really clear, and just to set out for Senedd Members exactly how this works. So…
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Topical Questions
So, a number of the things that James Evans set out there—. I believe all Members have received the same information as I have as a Senedd Member, from Welsh Water; if you haven't, then I can certainly forward it to you. As I say, I do not control Welsh…
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Topical Questions
Pollution is, but the regulation of water companies is not with the Welsh Government, so, you could very helpfully suggest to the UK Government that the regulatory framework is not fit for purpose, as we do, and—[Interruption.]
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Topical Questions
No, I cannot. The regulation powers are not with the Welsh Government.
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Topical Questions
I cannot regulate it, actually.
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Topical Questions
I'm not entirely certain what I'm being asked to do there. Are you asking me to nationalise Welsh Water? Welsh Water is a private not-for-profit company. It's not controlled by the Welsh Government, so I'm not really certain whether you're asking me to…
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Topical Questions
Yes. I have been very clear with Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water that we expect water companies in Wales to provide the highest standards of service to customers and to protect the environment. The reduction in Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's rating is very concerning. My…
