21 June 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
Well, 'Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme will help tackle the plague of glass bottles littering communities because its inclusion of glass will see the recycling of an additional 53,000 tonnes of containers. It would be fantastic to see such a boost to…
21 June 2023 , Plenary
Topical Questions
Thank you. We welcome the engagement of the drink retailers in the development of the deposit-return scheme, and we will work with them to bring forward a successful and effective scheme.
21 June 2023 , Plenary
Joint item with the Welsh Youth Parliament
Well, I thank Ella for the question, and for the advocacy she has shown on this vital issue. I think it's important to say that 60 per cent of the emissions that we need to cut by 2050 are in the hands of the UK Government and 40 per cent are in the hands of…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'The Welsh Government’s EV charging infrastructure strategy and action plan'
—that concern. I fear I haven't been able to address all of the points. Let me just simply say to conclude: there is much that has been done. At the moment, we have more than our per-head share of charge points for the number of people in Wales who own…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'The Welsh Government’s EV charging infrastructure strategy and action plan'
Well, let me come to that. Let me just first address recommendations 12 and 17, which ask the Welsh Government to establish the connections group and the charge point operator working group within weeks. Now, we are in the process of setting up the two…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'The Welsh Government’s EV charging infrastructure strategy and action plan'
I'll happily give way to Huw.
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Debate on the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee Report—'The Welsh Government’s EV charging infrastructure strategy and action plan'
Diolch yn fawr, Dirprwy Lywydd. And I'd like to thank Members for their contributions and the committee for their work in producing the report. I welcome the challenge and the scrutiny by the committee, both in our oral evidence sessions and in today’s…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. Well, as the Member has said, the Welsh Government want to see a station in St Clears as part of an upgrade of our overall public transport system, for the reasons that he very articulately set out. He's also right that the costs of the St Clears…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch. Transport for Wales is taking forward work under the co-operation agreement between the Welsh Government and Plaid Cymru on transport links between north and south Wales, including travel corridors on the west coast of Wales, on an integrated…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much for the question. Every time I hear the Conservative benches misrepresenting our policy I get a case of the dizzy bends. Just to be explicit, for the fifteenth time, we are not banning road building. We are building new roads now, we will…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. As the Member knows, Denbighshire council as the highway authority is responsible for road safety in their county. Since 2019, we have provided them with over £1 million of road safety funding. This year, their funding will include over £197,000 to…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Well, thank you for taking us through the history of the bridge and the discussion of options to replace it. As Mark Isherwood knows, we published our roads review and our amended roads policy statement, which he welcomed insofar as it applied to the red…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. I too would like to pass on my sympathy to the family of the person who died on the bridge. We absolutely are looking at the issues that Rhun ap Iorwerth sets out. As he knows, we've asked the Burns commission specifically to look on this. We have…
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I have asked the north Wales transport commission to consider the resilience of access to and from Ynys Môn in addition to its original remit. The commission's interim report is due to be published this week, with final recommendations to follow in the autumn.
7 June 2023 , Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for the question.
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
Okay. Thank you for an interesting set of questions. On the criteria for the base network, before this crisis erupted we'd been systematically working our way around Wales trying to develop with local authorities a base network based on analysis. So, I think…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
Thank you for those comments, even the backhanded compliment. Let me just address them in reverse order. He will know from the work he did leading the Valleys taskforce that the issue of bus provision was one of the main priorities of people right across the…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
I'm acutely conscious of that threat, and that is one of the reasons why we'll be making sure the school routes are very much part of our initial planning, because they do provide a revenue stream for companies then who are able to provide other services. In…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
The Community Transport Association is part of that group that I am chairing, and they're very much involved in the conversations. They have an important part to play in that patchwork of provision. But, whichever way you approach this issue, it's the quantum…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
I'm sorry, it's hard to keep up with additional comments. The Member says 'concessionary fares'. You can slice and dice it whichever way you like. We've looked at a range of models—of a £1 flat fare for everybody; we've looked at free travel for young people…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
Well, as I mentioned, not only have we considered it, we've planned it, we've done the modelling work on it. We've taken it extremely seriously as a viable option, and the Cabinet has endorsed it. What we don't have is the money to pay for it, because I'm…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
Thank you. Well, clearly, the bus ecosystem is different in Ceredigion and Powys than it is in many other parts of Wales and we have representatives from both those authorities on the groups that I chair weekly and the points are clearly made, and we are…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
Well, thank you for that, and 100 handwritten letters is a significant number, and it reflects the strength of feeling there is about buses. You hear the old cliché, 'use it or lose it'; people start to value something when they think it’s not going to be…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
Thank you. We are working with CPT on this, which, of course, has the experience across the UK, and they've agreed to put a small amount of funding into the pot for the campaign. We'll need to carefully design it, based on data and nudge points, with TfW to…
23 May 2023 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: Update on Bus Services
I'll try to deal with both points. First of all, it's silly of him to suggest that we have contempt for commuters—quite the reverse. The whole point of the upgrade to the Cardiff and Valleys lines is to dramatically improve the service for commuters. That…
