, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Who'd like to start on that? Ian Andrew, yes, by all means, yes.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay. Thank you, Sarah. I'll now bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay, thank you very much. I'll now bring in Sarah Murphy. Sarah.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Fine. Anything to add, John Hope?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Anyone else? Rachel?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Yes, sure.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Okay, thank you. And how effective do you think are alternatives to snares, legal alternatives, in your view?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Ian Andrew.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Anyone else on this?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Well, thank you for those introductions. Perhaps I can just kick off this session and just ask you really, in your view, how could the banning of the use of snares impact rural communities, the environment and, indeed, the businesses that you actually…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
And John Hope?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 8
Welcome back to this meeting of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee. We'll move on now to item 4 on our agenda, which is a continuation of scrutiny of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill. This is the eighth committee evidence session to consider the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Luke. I'm afraid that time has beaten us, and therefore our session has come to an end. Can I take this opportunity to thank you for being with us this morning? Your evidence will be very useful to us as a committee in scrutinising this…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you, Sam. I'll now bring in Luke Fletcher.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you, Vikki. I'll now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Yes. Collin Willson, you just want to come in finally on that.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Anyone else on that? David Bowles.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thanks. I'll now bring in Vikki Howells.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Anyone else on this? Billie-Jade Thomas.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Do you think that the Bill goes far enough from your perspective? Because the Bill prohibits the use of a snare or any cable restraint. In your view, is this wording sufficient to prevent rebranding of devices to avoid the ban? You touched on this, I think…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Collin Willson.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you. Simon Wild.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thanks. Anyone else on this?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 7
Thank you very much indeed for those introductions. Thank you for being with us this morning. Perhaps I can just kick off this session and just ask you on your views on the breadth of the Bill's prohibitions on snares and glue traps. Do you believe that they…
