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4,367 speeches and questions

22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
That's specifically in relation to Ffos-y-fran, not the wider—
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Thank you. Joyce.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Okay. Delyth has been very patient, as has Joyce, and then we'll go on to Carolyn.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Okay. Sorry, carry on, yes.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Janet, sorry, I think we need to be a bit more respectful here. Thank you.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Let's have one answer at a time, and then we can ask—
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Well, then, briefly, and then we'll come on to Delyth.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
You know the ins and outs.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
You can respond briefly, if you may, and then we'll come to Delyth.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
It's a fair enough question, but it's not relevant to this inquiry, actually.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Well, that's taking us into a whole other debate about whether that—
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Okay, let's hear the answer, then. Let's hear the answer.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Okay. We'll come to Janet and then we'll come to Delyth.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Julie wanted to come in, and then we'll come back to you, then, to carry on with your questions.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
So, on the face of it, you would expect that money to be there and ready to be utilised in terms of restoring the site.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
But it doesn't say how much.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
In relation to the £15 million guarantee element, obviously, you've suggested what you believe the value of the company is, in terms of what is recorded with Companies House. Have you asked the company whether they have money and, if they do, how much they…
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Yes.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Okay. Okay. Fine. Thank you. Thank you. Carolyn.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Yes. It was quite a pleasant ring, but, nevertheless, maybe it would be useful to turn it off. Thank you.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Sorry. Somebody's mobile phone is ringing.
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Can I just ask a question about that, then, because I think we might be coming back to this point on a few occasions? How is it that, organisationally, you cannot be accountable or answerable for decisions that were made before you were employed? Because, as…
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Although that's not the—. Am I right in thinking that they're behind in filing the accounts?
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
Is that the latest information that you have, because that's nearly 10 years old?
22 May 2024Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Restoration of opencast mining sites - evidence session 6
So, can I—? Sorry, before you come in, can I ask, then, you referenced 2015 that it had £15 million—