Agenda - Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid – Committee room 3 Senedd and video Conference via Zoom  

Meeting date: 26 April 2023

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Marc Wyn Jones

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddClimate@senedd.wales

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Private meeting (09.15-09.30)

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Public meeting (09.30-12.10)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

(09.30)                                                                                                             

 

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2       Decarbonisation of the steel industry in South Wales - evidence session with Tata Steel

(09.30-10.45)                                                                             (Pages 1 - 17)

Martin Brunnock, Director of Communications and Public Affairs – Tata Steel

Huw Morgan, Director of Decarbonisation – Tata Steel

Attached Documents:
Research brief - Tata Steel

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Break (10.45-10.55)

 

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3       Decarbonisation of the steel industry in South Wales - evidence session with Trade Unions

(10.55-12.10)                                                                                                  

Alasdair McDiarmid, Assistant General Secretary - Community Union

Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, GMB National Officer – GMB Trade Union

Shavanah Taj, General Secretary - Wales TUC

Tony Brady, Unite Wales Regional Coordinating Officer with responsibility for Tata nationally – Unite the Union

 

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4       Papers to note

(12.10)                                                                                                             

 

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4.1   The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill

                                                                                                 (Pages 18 - 21)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Minister for Climate Change with follow up questions following the Ministerial evidence session on the Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Bill

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4.2   Decarbonising the private housing sector

                                                                                                 (Pages 22 - 58)

Attached Documents:
Response from the Welsh Government to the Committee's report on Decarbonising the private housing sector

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4.3   Natural Resources Wales

                                                                                                 (Pages 59 - 60)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Minister for Climate Change to the Chair in relation to Natural Resources Wales’s funding gap

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4.4   Fuel Poverty

                                                                                                 (Pages 61 - 62)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee in relation to Fuel Poverty and the Warm Homes Programme

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4.5   The South Wales Metro

                                                                                                 (Pages 63 - 68)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chief Executive Officer of Transport for Wales to the Chair regarding an update on the delivery of the South Wales Metro

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4.6   Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24

                                                                                                 (Pages 69 - 70)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Chair of the Finance Committee in relation to improvements to documentation provided by the Welsh Government to support scrutiny of future draft budgets

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4.7   Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - engagement strategy

                                                                                                 (Pages 71 - 73)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Finance Committee in relation to the engagement strategy for scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25

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4.8   Audit Wales report: Digital Inclusion in Wales

                                                                                                           (Page 74)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee to the Chair in relation to Audit Wales report: Digital Inclusion in Wales

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4.9   Resources and Waste Common Framework

                                                                                                 (Pages 75 - 84)

Attached Documents:
Response from the Minister for Climate Change to the Chairs letter of 3 March in relation to the Resources and Waste Common Framework

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4.10Water company executive bonuses

                                                                                                 (Pages 85 - 87)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chief Executive of Ofwat to the Chair in relation to water company executive bonuses

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4.11Nature Positive Bill

                                                                                                 (Pages 88 - 97)

Attached Documents:
Briefing from Wales Environment Link on a Nature Positive Bill

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

(12.10)                                                                                                             

 

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Private meeting (12.10-12.30)

 

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6       Decarbonisation of the steel industry in South Wales - consideration of evidence received

                                                                                                                          

 

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