Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Meeting Venue:

Video Conference via Zoom

Meeting date: Thursday, 29 September 2022

Meeting time: 09.30 - 13.00
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/13112

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

Joyce Watson MS

Ken Skates MS (In place of Jenny Rathbone MS)

Witnesses:

Richard Clarke, Welsh Government

Gian Marco Currado, Welsh Government

Matt Davies, British Plastics Federation

Nick Howard, Welsh Government

Julie James MS, Minister for Climate Change

Natalia Lewis-Maselino, British Plastics Federation (BPF)

Craig Mitchell, Policy Officer, Welsh Local Government Association

Judith Parry, WGLA / Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

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  Apologies were received from Jenny Rathbone MS and Ken Skates MS substituted.

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2       Papers to note: note papers from the Committee's meeting on 22 September 2022 (6.1 to 6.11)

2.1 The papers were noted.

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3       Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5

3.1 The Committee heard evidence from representatives of the British Plastics Federation.

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4       Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session 6

4.1 The Committee heard evidence from representatives of local government.

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5       Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session with the Minister for Climate Change

5.1 1 Members heard evidence from the Minister for Climate Change and Welsh Government officials.

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6       Papers to note

6.1 The papers were noted.

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6.1   The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill

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6.2   The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill

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7       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting

7.1 The motion was agreed.

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8       Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill - consideration of evidence heard under items 3, 4 and 5

8.1 Members considered the evidence heard under items 3,4 and 5.

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9       Consideration of the Committee's draft report on the Legislative Consent Memoranda for the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill

9.1 The Committee discussed and agreed its draft report, subject to a minor amendment.

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10    Consideration of the Committee's Forward Work Programme

10.1 The Committee discussed and agreed its Forward Work Programme.

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