Speeches and questions

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Rachel, would you like to respond to that?

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

If I can now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Okay. Thank you for that. If I can now bring in Sarah Murphy to ask a question. Sarah.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Yes, of course.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Okay.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Okay. Thank you, Luke. Before I bring in Sarah Murphy, obviously I think that both of you mentioned that you feel that agricultural pollution is obviously one of the main sources of pollution here in Wales. We've received some figures from one of the farming…

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Okay—

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Thank you very much indeed for those introductions. Therefore, perhaps we can kick off with some questions from Luke Fletcher. Luke.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Thank you. Creighton Harvey.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Environmental organisations

Welcome back to the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee. We move on now to item 4 on our agenda, namely our review of the Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021. This is the third panel that we will be taking…

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Okay, thank you, Luke. I'm afraid time has beaten us. The session has now come to an end. So, I'd like, on behalf of the committee, to thank both of you for giving up your time this morning to be with us. It's been a very useful and informative session, so…

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Thank you. If I can now bring in Luke Fletcher. Luke.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Okay. Thank you, Vikki. If I can now bring in Sam Kurtz at this point as well. I know, Sam, that you had some questions at the end of this session; perhaps you want to cover those questions as well at the same time, so over to you, Sam.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Gareth.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Yes.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Okay. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you very much. If I can now bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Okay. Thank you very much indeed. If I can now bring in Sarah Murphy, just to touch on the costs involved in complying with the regulations. I know you've touched on this, but Sarah, are there any additional questions you'd like to ask on this?

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Just very briefly, yes. Time is marching on.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Thank you, Luke. If I can now bring in Vikki Howells to ask her question. Vikki.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

If I could now turn to Luke Fletcher, who can ask a few questions. Luke.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Thank you, Sarah.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Okay. Thank you, Hefin. If I can now move on to Sarah Murphy. Sarah.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Aled Jones, would you like to start?

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Thank you, both, for joining us this morning. We'll move on now to questions and I will ask Hefin David first to ask you some questions. Over to you, Hefin.

25 November 2021, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 - Farming Unions

Diolch yn fawr. Gareth Parry.