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Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Prices Bill
Yes, it is indeed true. So, this is a sticking plaster over an enormous wound, and it will cause real problems across public services, as well as for domestic customers. Nevertheless, it's important that what help there is available does get to the people and…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Prices Bill
Of course.
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Prices Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I'm very grateful to Members who've contributed to the debate. I share the Member's concerns about the process that's led us to where we are now, and I do share—as I shared, in fact, for the single-use plastics Bill—the concern about the lack…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Prices Bill
Yes, that’s right. The haste with which the Bill has appeared on the parliamentary timetable has meant that we had no foresight of it. As I was just going to go on to say, our Cabinet principles do however set out situations where it may be appropriate to…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Prices Bill
Yes, certainly.
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Energy Prices Bill
Diolch, Llywydd. I move the motion. The majority of the provisions in the Energy Prices Bill are reserved. The provisions within devolved competence with which we are concerned today are about the powers of the Secretary of State to give support for meeting…
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Motion to suspend Standing Orders
Formally.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Rhianon. The answer to this energy crisis is not to expand new extraction of fossil fuels. We do not support the UK Government's plans to expand new oil and gas licences in the North sea and open new fracking in England. Our policies will continue…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch, Rhianon. Our policies of supporting households, businesses and the public sector to reduce energy demand together with positive action to scale up the production of domestically produced renewable energy will enhance energy security in all areas of…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Well, you know, Mark, what I would say is, again, the Conservatives' ability to quote statistics outside of the macroeconomic situation just beggars belief. So, this Government has set record levels of social housing grant funding through the budget, so…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
We are supporting the housing sector to continue to supply new homes in the context of current challenges. Our new local housing market assessment approach assists local authorities to plan a sustainable housing supply that will meet local need.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, certainly, Tom. One of the issues there is, actually, the interaction of the planning system with the recycling system, as it happens. So, we are looking to see what we can do to ensure that that doesn't happen. We're also, as you know, about to go to a…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
With the greatest of pleasure. Our municipal recycling rate was a record 65.4 per cent in 2020-21, exceeding the 64 per cent target. This achievement, despite all the challenges that the pandemic brought, is testament to the hard work of our local authorities…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
It's very difficult to give you an update on each developer's timescale, for obvious reasons, Rhys, but we are working with them to understand what the schedule is for their buildings. Some buildings are in remediation now, I'm very pleased to say, and I'm…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Certainly. On 7 October, I announced that 11 developers have signed up to the Welsh Government’s developers pact. Work is now under way to create the formal legal documentation that will underpin the pact, and I anticipate that a draft of the documentation…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
It makes quite a big difference to how the planning system works, Darren. I'm just telling you, it makes a difference, and it's not a utility. I also don't know what the UK Government's contract with Openreach to do this piece of work looks like, but why on…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, but I'm just saying to you that you said it was a utility and it isn't.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Well, just to start off with, it's not a utility. It should be treated as one, but it isn't treated as one, and actually that brings a whole series of consequences. So one of the first things I'd suggest is that you actually ask the UK Government to make it a…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Permitted development rights are kept under review in consultation with local planning authorities, businesses and other organisations with an interest in development and the planning system. The latest changes help deliver flexibility to local authorities to…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I'm very interested indeed in trialling a right to adequate housing in this Senedd term, for sure. But one of the things we have to make sure is that we get the dominoes in a row first. Members will have heard me speak—my time sense is terrible—very recently…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Absolutely, Mabon, we have some practices growing up in the rental sector that are clearly putting barriers in place for people who want to get there. Obviously, what we'd really like to do is build social homes at pace and scale. I've just had a conversation…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I am answering the question. Those people are paid for from the rates support grant. Right? That has been cut successively by Conservative Governments over the last 10 years. Planners are the back-room staff so beloved of Conservative Governments for…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Again, Janet, how do you think those people are paid for?
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yet again, Janet, this is like trying to discuss the 1930s without reference to the depression. The idea that you can tell me that my target for phosphates is holding up house building, when you yourself go on about apparently believing in a climate and…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Once again, Janet, asking me these questions in the complete absence of any understanding of the overall financial arrangements in the UK at the moment is just extraordinary. We are facing a cost-of-living crisis across the UK, entirely as a result of the…
