, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
If a local planning authority refuses an application for planning permission, the applicant can appeal to the Welsh Ministers. Planning law requires planning appeals to be determined in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Mike. I just don’t agree that it would allow action to be taken. We’re actually very well aware of those buildings. Both of them are in the intrusive survey stage; one of them is complete. One of the buildings has not asked us to pay for a survey…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
On the leaseholder support scheme, I said when we launched it in June last year that we'd continue to review it on a three-monthly basis, and we've continued to do that. We've reviewed and slackened the eligibility criteria each time in order to reach a wider…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Joel. As I said, we are very aware of what the position on each site is. We understand what the difficulties have been. The remaining sites, the ones that are not yet completed, all have either a complex management structure and it's taken us some…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much, Rhys. I met Lucy Frazer. Unfortunately, she changed jobs pretty immediately afterwards. I'm not going to take that personally. I'll have to look to meet the new housing Minister as soon as I know who that is. I do meet Michael Gove…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Rhys. I have regular contact with the UK Government and other devolved administrations in respect of building safety. I engage with my counterparts in the UK Government and devolved nations through the inter-ministerial group meetings, in which I…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Huw. Llywydd, I'm in danger of needing to give an hour's lecture as the answer to every one of these questions. I won't try to your patience too much. Suffice to say, Huw, we've already announced that we'll make a state-owned energy development…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I wasn't quite sure where the edge was there. It's an excellent project, and one of the things we discussed when we were there—I had the great privilege of opening it, so it's now powering the hospital, helping with their energy and carbon footprint—but one…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Natasha. Obviously, I won't comment on individual projects because I'm the planning Minister as well, so I'll make some general remarks about that. Quite clearly, we do want solar to come forward, alongside a raft of other things in the renewable…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Natasha. In 2021, renewables projects in Wales generated the equivalent of 55 per cent of our electricity use. Evidence published alongside our review of energy targets shows there is a pipeline of projects in development to meet our 2030 target…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
So, it's a multi-angled programme, basically, and so, what we're having to do is calibrate the budget out to the point where we're doing the remedial work. So, you'll see that we're spending less at the beginning of the programme because we're doing surveys…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, I'm very well aware of this as well. I've had one of the biggest managing agents in to see me very recently. I have a constituency full of people who have got this problem, so I'm dealing with it locally as well. It's sometimes difficult to separate the…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, Janet, I'm very well aware of Michael Gove's various pronouncements. I very recently met with the then Minister for housing, who's now the Minister for culture, media and sport, I believe—it's quite difficult to keep up—to talk about this. I have asked…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, thank you, Janet. So, just to be really specific, the Welsh Government have recently awarded grant funding to Conwy County Borough Council to develop a full business case for Llandudno, based on maintaining and improving the existing cobble defence on…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Janet. The Welsh Government is investing £293 million in reducing flood risk to coastal communities across Wales through our coastal risk management programme. This will reduce flood risk to over 15,000 properties, and includes, for example, more…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Indeed, but just to emphasise the fact, though, that the deposit-return scheme does two things. It absolutely will get the level of recycling up into the high 90s; it has done everywhere else that it has been introduced. But the other thing that it's…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
So, it has a go-live date of October 2025, just to be clear. So, at the moment, what we're working on is—it's just the resource internally to work on the various impact assessments, the explanatory memorandum and all the rest of it that go alongside that. So…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Indeed, Joyce. The water companies, in particular, are having a real look at this, and we hope it will be part of the price review for the water companies. I'm sure that the committee is aware that we're working on the price review for 2025 at the moment, and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Water is 'W', so it's right at the back—sorry. Yes. The action plans are owned by a whole series of organisations across the piece, so this is another one where we're co-ordinating rather than funding a piece of action. We've got NRW, water companies, Ofwat…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Yes, it's not my responsibility.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Just to say on that, though, that, as part of this year's remit letters to the national parks, we emphasised biodiversity exemplars upfront. And, I know the national parks have been really acting on that and trying to recalibrate their own resource. So, I was…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
So, there's no budget for that at the moment, because that is one of the initial things coming out of the deep-dive, and, then, as we go forward with that, then, as I've explained already, we'll be looking to put a budget allocation towards it.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Sorry to be complicated.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
So, that's the new national park. The existing national parks stay in this MEG.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
So, that actual piece of work moved, in the small moving around of resource, to my colleague, Lesley Griffiths. So, it's not in my—
