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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Rhys. If you want to put that gentleman in touch with me, I'm very happy to talk to them about being part of the national forest initiative as well. That sounds very interesting. At the moment, the Welsh Government is investing more than £1.2…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
The Welsh Government liaises with Cardiff city council through both the local nature partnership and planning authority about the creation and improvement of community green spaces. Support is available through the Local Places for Nature, community…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for the question, Rhys.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I'll do that with the greatest of pleasure, Jayne. I think the concern that our schoolchildren across Wales show for the environment in all of its forms is something to be very proud of. My colleague Jeremy Miles and I are very proud of the eco-schools…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Jayne. We continue to fund the fly-tipping action Wales programme. In 2022, we doubled the funding to £1.2 million for the next three years to enhance our support for environmental regulators and communities to tackle fly-tipping. The programme…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, so we're very interested in the use of the discretionary housing programme. There are a number of other discretionary streams of funding available as well. The Minister for Social Justice and I have been looking across the piece at a number of…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Mabon. The numbers of people in temporary accommodation are very high. It is important, though, to say that not all of those are in very unsuitable accommodation. We have, as I know you know, a transitional accommodation capital programme in place…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
As I said in response to Llyr, John, this is part of my colleague Lesley Griffiths's portfolio, but, obviously, her officials and mine, and she and I, work very closely together on this, and we will be bringing forward some measures as a result of this still…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Llyr. This is actually in Lesley Griffiths's portfolio, but, obviously, we work extremely closely together, because it crosses over a number of the biodiversity issues that you've raised. It is very worrying indeed. We saw the Manx shearwater…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Well, as the Member knows, that was part of the agriculture Bill that we were very pleased to pass in the Senedd recently, and the impact assessments were very much done as part of that Bill.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, thank you, Ken. As we all know, climate change is a major driver of biodiversity loss and, so, clean energy will be absolutely vital in reaching net zero and tackling both the climate and nature emergencies. We're very committed to the transition to a…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Ken. The Welsh Government is supporting a range of initiatives to tackle biodiversity loss, including scaling up delivery of our nature networks and national peatland action programmes, and completing the marine protected area network. These will…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Government Response to the ‘Developing the UK Emissions Trading Scheme’ Consultation
Yes, I completely agree with that last statement, of course, and we want to have that resilient sector. They do absolutely want to decarbonise. They understand both the global need for it, but actually the commercial imperative, too. So, there's a good bottom…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Government Response to the ‘Developing the UK Emissions Trading Scheme’ Consultation
Thank you, Sam Kurtz. I can see you've been speaking to Valero, because that's pretty much the agenda we had last time we met them. So, yes, a cost-containment mechanism—. We're very clear, we've retained the contingency for exactly that reason, because we…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Government Response to the ‘Developing the UK Emissions Trading Scheme’ Consultation
Thank you, Mike. I absolutely do agree with that last point, and I've made it myself repeatedly. It is quite clear that we have quite efficient industries, even though they're carbon intensive; it would not help at all to export that to a country that did not…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Government Response to the ‘Developing the UK Emissions Trading Scheme’ Consultation
Thank you very much, Delyth, for that. I will do my best. There's a bit of that I just don't know the answer to, so I'll have to write to you, frankly. It's very technical indeed. On the emissions measurements and the detail, I'm afraid that depends on which…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Government Response to the ‘Developing the UK Emissions Trading Scheme’ Consultation
Diolch for those questions. There are some quite technical answers to some of the questions that you have asked. The technology itself is not part of the UK ETS. This is about the cap and the trading scheme only. But we do have the technology discussions with…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Government Response to the ‘Developing the UK Emissions Trading Scheme’ Consultation
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Climate change is an existential threat to our society, with impacts now being seen worldwide. Global temperatures continue to rise, and, as highlighted by the March 2023 publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Update on Building Safety
Thank you, Rhys ab Owen. So, the Welsh Cladiators are part of the stakeholder group that I met with last week. The issue with Celestia is very complicated and subject to litigation, so it's not something I can easily discuss on the floor of the Senedd. I've…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Update on Building Safety
Yes, thank you, Mike. There absolutely is no single fix for this. If there were, we would have taken that route, of course. There is no simple, straightforward fix. The route that England has taken allows people to sue themselves the developer. We've always…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Update on Building Safety
Diolch, Jane. So, the scheme to date has had 17 applications. One has been completed, five are still going through the process, one is currently going through an evaluation process, and 10 were ineligible. I will say, though, that if you know somebody who’s…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Update on Building Safety
Diolch, Mabon. Just on Doc Fictoria and the smaller—. So, Doc Fictoria specifically was developed by Watkin Jones, which I'm sure you know. I've written to Watkin Jones, and they've confirmed that they are working with responsible owners in respect of the…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Update on Building Safety
Well, thank you, Joel. I did, actually, I think, answer quite a few of those questions in my statement, but just to reiterate: the Bill timing is before the end of this Senedd term—I've always been very clear about that. It isn't in the next year for the…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Update on Building Safety
The first of those, Dirprwy Lywydd, is orphan buildings. In my oral statement in March, I announced that I was taking forward 28 buildings as part of the orphan buildings pilot scheme. For all 28 buildings, the developer has either ceased trading, is unknown…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Update on Building Safety
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I am pleased to have this opportunity to share a progress update on the actions we are taking, together with Plaid Cymru, to address building safety in Wales. There are seven parts to the update today, including our orphan building…
