Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Meeting Venue:

Video Conference via Zoom

Meeting date: Thursday, 25 November 2021

Meeting time: 09.30 - 11.00
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/12469

Remote

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Attendance

Category

Names

Members of the Senedd:

Llyr Gruffydd MS (Chair)

Janet Finch-Saunders MS

Huw Irranca-Davies MS

Delyth Jewell MS

Jenny Rathbone MS

Joyce Watson MS

Witnesses:

Julie James MS, Minister for Climate Change

Jonathan Oates, Welsh Government

Christine Wheeler, Welsh Government

Committee Staff:

Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk)

Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk)

Andrea Storer (Deputy Clerk)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.

1.2 The Chair stated that if for any reason he dropped out of the meeting, the Committee agreed that Delyth Jewell MS would become Temporary Chair in accordance with Standing Order 17.22.

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2       Scrutiny of the Welsh Government's Net Zero Wales Plan

2.1 The Committee heard evidence from the Minister for Climate Change.

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3       Papers to Note

3.1 The papers were noted.

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3.1   Common Frameworks

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3.2   Environment Bill

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3.3   Sea bottom trawling and Marine Protected Areas

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3.4   Sewage discharges from storm overflows

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3.5   National Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)

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3.6   Complaint against Flintshire County Council

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4       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

4.1 The motion was agreed.

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5       Scrutiny of the Welsh Government's Net Zero Wales Plan: consideration of evidence received under item 2

5.1 The Committee considered the evidence heard under item 2.

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