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Group 7: Products made of oxo-degradable and oxo-biodegradable plastic (Amendments 34, 20, 22)
Diolch, Llywydd.
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Group 6: Exemptions-in relation to cotton buds (Amendments 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38)
Diolch, Llywydd. The intention of the Bill is to prohibit the supply and offer to supply for sale or for free the products listed in the Bill to consumers in Wales. Amendments 31, 32 and 33 tabled by Janet Finch-Saunders propose to amend Schedule 1 to the…
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Group 5: Exemptions in relation to pharmacy medicine (Amendments 2, 3, 4, 5)
Diolch, Llywydd. At Stage 2, I accepted an amendment tabled by Delyth Jewell to reduce the number of exemptions for plastic single-use carrier bags from the ban introduced by the Bill, specifically to remove the exemption that applies when a patient receives…
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Group 4: Manufacture of prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 57, 58, 59, 16, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 30, 56)
All amendments in this group deal with making it an offence to manufacture, as well as to supply or offer to supply, a single-use plastic product that is banned in the Schedule part of the Bill. During Stage 2, similar amendments regarding the manufacture of…
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Group 3: Guidance (Amendments 15, 17)
Turning to amendment 15, tabled by Janet Finch-Saunders, this amendment inserts a provision in section 2 of the Bill to set out how the exemptions contained in table 1 of the Schedule relating to single-use plastic straws should apply: specifically, how a…
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Group 2: Electronic cigarettes (Amendments 6, 9, 10, 7, 8)
Formally.
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Group 2: Electronic cigarettes (Amendments 6, 9, 10, 7, 8)
Amendment 9, proposed by Rhys ab Owen, would add disposable e-cigarettes to the Schedule, meaning that they would be banned. Amendments 6, 8 and 10 are consequential to this amendment. Of course we recognise that there's anecdotal evidence of an increased…
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Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic products and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 11, 39, 12, 40, 13, 14, 1)
Diolch, Llywydd. Turning first to amendments 11 and 12, tabled by Janet Finch-Saunders, both amendments aim to achieve the same goal, namely to align the definition of 'single-use' to that applied elsewhere, such as in Scotland. The amendments propose the…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Climate Change—Final Statement for Carbon Budget 1
Thank you very much, Jenny. One of the things you'll see when we publish the plan by the end of this week is a very useful infographic, which, Deputy Llywydd, I happen to have a rush copy of in front of me. What that does is go through some of the statistics…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Climate Change—Final Statement for Carbon Budget 1
Yes, thank you very much, Delyth, for that series of things. So, just going through them in order, yes, we absolutely bring up the grid issues every single time I meet anybody even remotely relevant to it in a ministerial group—we bring it up. I’m in the…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Climate Change—Final Statement for Carbon Budget 1
Thank you, Janet. I completely agree with you that much of what we've achieved, of course, is only possible with the people and the communities of Wales, and that means communities in a geographical sense but also communities of interest like, for example…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Climate Change—Final Statement for Carbon Budget 1
Diolch, Llywydd. Llywydd, last month, world leaders came together at COP27 to focus on the climate emergency. Following difficult negotiations, there was both hope and disappointment. Hope came from the agreement for developed nations to create a fund as…
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Motion to vary the order of consideration of Stage 3 amendments to The Environmental Protection (Single-Use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Yes.
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Motion to vary the order of consideration of Stage 3 amendments to The Environmental Protection (Single-Use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Diolch, Deputy Llywydd. I move the motion.
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The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12 and Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2022
—[Inaudible.]—a few of the things—I'll do them in reverse order, if that's okay. In terms of the issues raised around the VAWDASV concerns that Women’s Aid have raised, obviously I’ve had them raised with me as well, and my officials have, and I’ve recently…
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The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12 and Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2022
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (Amendment of Schedule 12 and Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2022 do three principal things. Firstly and most importantly, they amend the renting homes Act to improve security of tenure for…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Building Safety Act 2022
If there's an orphan building—that's what we call them—where the developer has gone bankrupt and we cannot trace a development company with liability or responsibility for that, then that will be paid for out of the Government's fund, which is considerably…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Building Safety Act 2022
Will you take an intervention, just to be really clear?
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Building Safety Act 2022
I'm just coming on to that. So, as I was just saying, this provides assurance for leaseholders that they will not have to pay for fire safety works that they are not responsible for, and that the remediation works will be progressed. In Wales, we've worked…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Building Safety Act 2022
Yes, of course.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Building Safety Act 2022
Thank you very much for the opportunity to discuss the important issue of building safety in Wales. As many Members have already mentioned, building safety forms part of the co-operation agreement. Today, Llywydd, the Tories want to focus on sections 116 to…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Water Quality
Thanks, James. I'll do my best with that. It's quite a long list of things. Just to say that planning for drainage and sewerage services has a lot of interdependencies. Water companies have got to meet their statutory duties under environmental legislation…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Water Quality
Thank you, Jane. We have discussions with Dŵr Cymru, and indeed Hafren Dyfrdwy, all the time. We have a very close working relationship with NRW and our water authorities, for obvious reasons, and as I was just saying in response to John, we're currently…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Water Quality
Yes, thank you, Peter. So, our river basin management plans, our river catchment management plans are the main mechanism that we use to improve water quality. We implement the plans—I know that you know this already—on a catchment partnership and…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Water Quality
Yes, absolutely, John. I was delighted to come along to one of the meetings, and I know that you've been working very hard there on the Gwent levels, which are a real green lung for the conurbation around them—very, very important for all kinds of biodiverse…
