, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
I move amendment 1 now, in the name of the Minister. The question is that amendment—. Sorry, let's start that again. I move amendment 1 in the name of the Minister, and the question is that amendment 1 be agreed. Does any Member object? No objections. There…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
There we are. If amendment 26 is agreed, then amendment 2 falls, so the question is that amendment 26 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, we have an objection, so we'll move to a vote. The question is that amendment 26 be agreed. Those in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Janet, do you wish to move amendment 26?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
There we are. The question is therefore that amendment 62 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] There is an objection, so we'll move to a vote. The question is that amendment 62 be agreed. Those in favour, please raise your hands. And those against…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
As I indicated previously, amendment 61 is inadmissible, and we will therefore proceed to amendment 62. Delyth, do you wish to move amendment 62? Yes, okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Yes, there we are. Okay, so the question is that amendment 25 be agreed. Does any Member object? [Objection.] Okay, there is an objection. We therefore will put this amendment to a vote. The question is that amendment 25 be agreed. Those in favour, please…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
There we are. Thank you very much. So, Janet, do you wish to proceed to a vote on amendment 25?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Thank you, Minister. Janet, would you like to reply to the debate?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Thank you, Jenny. Any other speakers? No. There we are. I therefore call on the Minister to speak. Minister.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Any other Members who wish to contribute? Jenny.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
Thank you, Janet. I call on Delyth Jewell now to speak to the amendments in this group as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Group 1: Meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products (Amendments 25, 61, 62, 26, 1, 2, 27, 63, 3, 4, 5)
So, we'll start, as we do, with group 1. Group 1 relates to the meaning of single-use plastic product and prohibited single-use plastic products. The lead amendment in this group is amendment 25 in the name of Janet Finch-Saunders. Amendment 61, tabled in the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill - Stage 2 Proceedings
We'll move to the main focus of our meeting this morning, namely Stage 2 proceedings of the Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill. May I welcome Julie James, the Minister for Climate Change, to our meeting this morning? I will…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
A very warm welcome to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee at the Senedd. This meeting is being held in a hybrid format and, aside from adaptations relating to conducting proceedings in a hybrid format, all other…
, Plenary
The Land Transaction Tax (Tax Bands and Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
We will be supporting these regulations. We feel that they are acceptable rates. It's quite right that Welsh needs are reflected in this way, very different to other parts of the UK, of course. That's the purpose of devolution. It is disappointing, as the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
I think you made a good point there. Okay. Thank you. Diolch.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, and there is reference to maximising and resource efficiency, which may cover that base—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
The farming unions suggested that maybe elements such as productivity should be added to that list. Do you have any thoughts around extending in that direction?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Anthony, anything to add?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. There was one point made earlier in a previous session that there's reference to maximising carbon sequestration and storage, but that maybe there was a need for a more explicit recognition of managing existing, as well as maybe developing additional…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Yes, okay. That evolution is sensible, I suppose; you're right. So, in terms, then, of the list of purposes for what support may be provided towards, that's listed in section 8. Is there anything there that grates or sticks out a little bit, or is there…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay, yes, a couple of really important points there. There is scope, of course, as well for Ministers to amend those definitions. I don't know whether you have any particular view as to how appropriate that is.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Diolch, Gadeirydd. I'm just wondering what your views are on the powers given to Welsh Ministers to provide support for agriculture and ancillary activities—I always struggle with that word—and what the definitions are, clearly, because the definitions…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Diolch, Gadeirydd. Thank you. The nature of any framework Bill is set in the parameters so that Ministers can then go away and draft regulations and fill in the blanks, effectively. So, it's a bit of a broad one, but do you think the balance between what's on…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Okay, well, that was very nearly everything that you're prioritising, so I'm not sure whether that's possible, but I am glad that that engagement and that discussion is happening, because the message is coming through clearly that they need to know what the…
