, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
No, it's because they're doing something slightly different than the current national standard asks them to do. So, they're particularly monitoring places that are hotspots, that we know are hotspots, so particular traffic areas, for example, or particular…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
First off, what we'd really like to see is to get the quality to a point where you don't ever have an amber or a red warning, certainly by a school. So, part of it will be to make sure that we have targets in place that actually get the air quality to be good…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
So, Jenny, I think that's a slightly different question—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Yes, certainly, Jenny. And, again, Chair, I'll start this off, and some of the officials might want to add to it. At the moment, we have, alongside the rest of the UK, several statutory air quality monitoring networks in place for very specific purposes, and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
That's a very good point, Delyth. When we come back with the targets for the other things that are not PM2.5, or in the unlikely event that we'd come back to try and change the target, then what we would do is we would have a full set of criteria in front of…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Absolutely, we understand the worry of that, but I can't emphasise enough how important it is for these targets to be realistic and achievable, in the sense of a ladder to where we need to get to. We're going to set these targets, but let's assume, I don't…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
That's exactly what I'm setting out. What we want to do is make sure that the air quality modelling based on all of the emissions scenarios is used to assess future pollutant levels and ascertain what the target levels should be and what they could be at…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
A credible scientific pathway, a full economic analysis of how to get there, an impact analysis on public health and environmental benefits, and then coming back through the committee with the regulations, obviously, and the scrutiny of the committee, to make…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
I don't think so at all. What we’re saying here is that we should be satisfied when we set those targets that they can be met. We all know the danger of setting a target that then becomes just something that’s impossible to meet, and people just shrug their…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
I haven't got one.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
We aren't working to a timescale on that. We're working to a timescale on the PM2.5. On the others, we will collect the data as fast as we can from the evidential base, and working with things like the World Health Organization guidelines, and then we will…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
I think I just set that out, really, Janet. The reason for the timescale is that we don't know where the data will take us or what those targets should be.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
No, actually, Huw. What we’d be doing then is setting out in regulations the other targets. This is an enabling power for us to do that, and then the regulations can be kept up to date as we come up with the evidence. You can do it in the negative, if you…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
The very short answer to that, Huw, is because we just don't have the data for the other aspects of air quality. I'm very happily going to hand over to Olwen and Roger to talk you through some of this, I suspect. For PM2.5, we have both a standard target, if…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
It's very straightforward, Cadeirydd; it's because the targets are changing all the time. There's no real minimum level, and we want the Bill to be flexible into the future. We want the regulations to be as tight as possible—it's not a light option for us…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
It complements, so it adds things to it, which I'm sure we'll come on to in a moment, it changes a few of the provisions to make them more useable, and then it puts much more specific duties on us to set particular targets, particularly for PM2.5, which is…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill - evidence from the Minister for Climate Change: part 1
Thank you, Chair. Bore da, everybody. The Bill builds on a very broad regulation power that we already have in section 87 of the Environment Act 1995, and that enables Welsh Ministers to make provision in relation to air quality, which could include setting…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I very much want to thank Members who’ve contributed to the debate today, and indeed to reiterate my thanks to the Chairs for their scrutiny of the LCMs over the time. I know that John Griffiths was not able to do this last one, but I’m very…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I do move the motion. This is a UK Bill intended to reform the regulation of social housing providers in England. I have called another debate today, because on 9 March, I laid a final supplementary LCM following additional amendments…
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill
There we go. Sorry. Apologies, Llywydd.
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill
Apologies, Llywydd. Give me one second. I seem to be having an ICT problem. Give me one second. Apologies.
, Plenary
Legislative Consent Motion on the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill
Apologies. Can you not hear me?
, Plenary
Short Debate: Fire safety in high-rise flats: A clear timetable for remediation for residents
Actually, you said yesterday—. You can check the Record, if you like. Maybe you didn't mean it, but what you said yesterday was really not very acceptable. Check it yourself. Let us not forget that Grenfell itself was a social sector property. I think it's…
, Plenary
Short Debate: Fire safety in high-rise flats: A clear timetable for remediation for residents
Well, you said—
, Plenary
Short Debate: Fire safety in high-rise flats: A clear timetable for remediation for residents
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you, Rhys, for the opportunity to discuss again the important issue of building safety in Wales. Just yesterday I made a statement on a series of actions we are taking as part of the Welsh building safety programme, together…
