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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
It's not true. There's a BBC tweet saying that's untrue. That's all.
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Can I raise a point of order, Llywydd?
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Questions to the First Minister
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a round-table with the south Wales industrial cluster as they launched their decarbonisation plan. While at the meeting, I was delighted to be shown a tweet from your Twitter account, First Minister, celebrating…
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Questions to the First Minister
4. How is the Welsh Government supporting the renewable energy industry? OQ59277
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Yes, that's a good point.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Okay, thank you. Thank you, all. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
So, it's not novel, what's in the food Bill; there is a precedent.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
So, had you been the Minister bringing this forward, would you have put stronger targets within it, or would you have left it as more of a specific framework, with the targets coming secondary?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
So, with one evidence session, I explained to them that, as you're a backbencher, you wouldn't be the Minister taking this Bill forward if it were to be successful; it wouldn't be your policy in Government. Given that, in terms of the aspirational targets…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Okay. So, it seems that you're quite amenable to potential amendments there, as and when they come on specific points. Some stakeholders highlighted the possible opposing nature of the goals, and you've previously said that they should all be taken equally. I…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Thank you, Chair. Good morning, panel. When taking evidence from RSPCA Cymru, they called for the inclusion of animal welfare in the Bill. The health boards that we've taken evidence from have explicitly mentioned the tackling of health inequalities, and…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Llywydd, earlier this week, I met with the Welsh Wool Alliance and local Pembrokeshire knitwear manufacturer Monkstone to discuss the huge potential that is Wales's wool industry. As it stands, the UK-wide wool industry generates the fourth largest wool clip…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
7. How is the Welsh Government supporting the local economy in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire? OQ59222
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Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, I have many happy memories from working aboard the Stena Europe and the Lynx sailing from Fishguard to Rosslare in the early 2010s when I was still a student. Much of the chatter and the talk below deck and in the galley then was that the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Okay. That's really helpful. Good closing remarks, I think, there. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
So, acting as a facilitator for a community who are clubbing together and going, 'We've just not got the capital to do this', and then you can step in—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Okay. I take from that, then, that you're plugging the gap in terms of where that support is available. Is that gap wholly filled by yourselves, or is there some way that you'd like to be able to take up not more of the market, per se, but, 'Oh, we could…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Okay, excellent. And just one final one if I may, Chair. In terms of what you offer that a traditional lending bank doesn't offer, what are the benefits that you'd say—? And I know, Gareth, you mentioned in your introduction some of the benefits around the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
And then that's at an early stage of the assessment process, rather than their getting through 99 per cent of it and then, right at the last moment where they think, 'We could be on positive ground here', 'Ah, this is something that we can't continue with.'
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
So, there's a bit of hand-holding there with businesses.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Okay, that's helpful. In terms, then, of the development bank's corporate plan 2022-27, it states that, as part of the bank's third economic contract pledge, and I quote, 'By 2024 we will ensure that carbon emissions and net zero plans are a mainstream part…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Okay, that's helpful. In terms, then, of businesses coming to you for finance, for support, is their decarbonising journey a key element of that, because sometimes that's around efficiency savings, not the growth of a business per se? How would the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
It’s just that’s quite a contentious issue at the moment, and robbing Peter to pay Paul, in that sense, could be detrimental to other economic activities—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Are they involved in the purchase of any agricultural land in Wales for carbon offsetting, that you’re aware of?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Just quickly on the offsetting scheme that was mentioned, what is that offsetting scheme that you run yourselves?
