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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Sorry, Mike, if I can, on that, what work have you done with the education Minister, then, because, obviously, part of this is educating children to educate their parents, because it's in the nature of things that that happens? Is that something that's…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Thank you, Peter. I'll move on to Mike, if we could unmute Mike Hedges—lovely, thank you.
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Thank you. Sorry, Peter, back to you.
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
And then, from the finance point of view, how do you divvy out? Who pays for it?
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Would that data be held by your department? It's more of the 'how' and the mechanisms of collecting that data and making sure that it's shareable and monitorable.
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Peter, before you move on, if I could ask a question about the data. Again, you've talked a lot about data, and as somebody who studied systems engineering and data, I'm a bit of a fan of data as well. What conversations have you had across Government with…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Thank you. I'll move on to Peter.
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Thank you. You've talked a lot about targets, and anybody who's listened to me in different places talking about targets knows that I'm a fan of targets as a way of improvement. I'm getting the sense from you, Minister, that you're probably in the same space…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Oh, Roger, fine. You were looking at me, that's all. [Laughter.]
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Maybe if we hear from either Olwen or Roger around what that work has entailed—I'm conscious of time, but, obviously, if you could be brief—and on some of the things that we're talking about in this first section.
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Okay, thank you. You note the Public Health England estimate for the cost of pollutants on the NHS and social care system in England as £1.6 billion between 2017 and 2025. Maybe you could expand on what work you've done to estimate the cost of pollutants on…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
That might come out later as we're going through, but it's interesting that you say that it's a framework Bill, because it's a little bit more substantive than some of our framework Bills that have been coming through. Just as something that's of an interest…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
We've got quite a lot of ground to cover, and thanks for your time this morning. I'd like to start by understanding the overall costs and the savings of the Bill and how the explanatory memorandum and regulatory impact assessment were developed. There are…
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
Excellent. Thank you very much. A warm welcome to you this morning.
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Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill
We'll move on to our substantive item today, which is item 3, the Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill, and the evidence session with the Minister. Croeso, Minister. I wonder if you could introduce yourself and your officials for the record…
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Papers to note
The papers to note, item 2. I propose that we note all these papers, unless anybody wants to raise anything about any of these papers. We've had a raft of them in over the Easter break, and quite a few are dealing with things that we were dealing with and the…
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Papers to note
We will move on now to item 2, papers to note.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
We will now move on. This meeting is being broadcast live on Senedd.tv, so there will be a Record of Proceedings available as usual and it will be shared with stakeholders after the meeting.
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning. A warm welcome to the first Finance Committee meeting after the break, it's good to be here with you, and I'd like to welcome everyone listening at home as well. I'd like to welcome the committee members back. We have received apologies from…
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Legislative Consent Motion on the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill
It will come as no surprise to anyone in this Siambr that I will be opposing this LCM on behalf of Plaid Cymru. Parking to one side the contents of this particular LCM, we are fundamentally opposed to the principle of Westminster interfering in devolution. No…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Palliative care
I know we’ve heard a little about children’s hospices from Rhun, and mentioned by John Griffiths, but I’d like to focus my contribution on the fantastic palliative care that is provided by Tŷ Hafan in the south and Tŷ Gobaith in the north of the country. Both…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Palliative care
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this debate today. Thank you to Mark Isherwood for his chairing of the cross-party group and the excellent report produced.
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Thank you, Minister. The issue of trade regulation is one on which we need urgent clarity. Another issue for Wales, raised by the Windsor framework, is that of the democratic deficit. Last week, the framework's Stormont brake was approved by the House of…
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Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch, Llywydd. Well, we in Plaid Cymru have welcomed the Windsor framework as a basis on which to re-establish power sharing in Northern Ireland. We're also clear that it raises a number of questions for Wales, to which we have not yet had satisfactory…
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Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Isn't it frustrating that we have to wait for the Tories in Westminster, who are not exactly known as the champions of social justice, to act on this? But that's maybe more of question for the Counsel General on the devolution of justice. As I said in Jack’s…
