Agenda - Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel

and video Conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 16 October 2024

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Marc Wyn Jones

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddClimate@senedd.wales

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Private pre-meeting (09.15-09.30)

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Public meeting (09.30-11.45)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

(09.30)

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2 Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

(09.30-11.00) (Pages 1 - 45)

Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs - Welsh Government

Alice Teague, Deputy Director, Marine & Fisheries Division - Welsh Government

Claire Bennett, Director of Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability - Welsh Government

Attached Documents:
Research brief - Biodiversity inquiry: halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030
Paper - Welsh Government

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Break (11.00-11.15)

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3 Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

(11.15-11.45) (Pages 46 - 53)

Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs - Welsh Government

Adriana Kiss, Water Directives Programme Manager - Welsh Government

Clare Fernandes, Deputy Director, Water and Flood - Welsh Government

Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill

Attached Documents:
Research brief - Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill

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4 Papers to note (11.45)

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4.1 UK Emissions Trading Scheme

(Pages 54 - 55)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs to the Chair in relation to the UK Emissions Trading Scheme

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4.2 Inter-Ministerial Group for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

(Pages 56 - 57)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs. to the Chair in relation to the Inter-Ministerial Group for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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4.3 Nature Service Wales

(Pages 58 - 59)

Attached Documents:
Letter from Nature Service Wales to the Chair in relation to Nature Service Wales

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4.4 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25

(Pages 60 - 63)

Attached Documents:
Response from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs to recommendations 21, 43, 45 and 49 from the Committee's report: Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25

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4.5 Cardiff Airport

(Pages 64 - 71)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee to the First Minister and the Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Transport and North Wales in relation to Cardiff Wales Airport
Response from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning to the Chair of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee in relation to Cardiff Wales Airport

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4.6 Petition P-06-1474 Stop Natural Resources Wales closing Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Coed y Brenin & Ynyslas visitor centres

(Pages 72 - 73)

Attached Documents:
Response from the Chief Executive of Natural Resources Wales to the Clerk of the Petitions Committee in relation to the closure the Bwlch Nant yr Arian, Coed y Brenin & Ynyslas visitor centres

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4.7 Natural Resources Wales Library and Information Services

(Page 74)

Attached Documents:
Response from the Chair to Louis Coiffait-Gunn CEO, CILIP in relation to Natural Resources Wales Library and Information Services

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4.8 Legislative Consent: Great British Energy Bill

(Pages 75 - 79)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning in relation to the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Great British Energy Bill
Letter from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning in relation to the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Great British Energy 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 this meeting and the start of the meeting on 20 November

(11.45)

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Private meeting (11.45-12.30)

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6 Consideration of evidence received under item 2

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7 Consideration of the Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Water (Special Measures) Bill

(Pages 80 - 89)

Attached Documents:
Legal note on the Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Water (Special Measures) Bill

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8 Consideration of draft report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

(Pages 90 - 93)

Attached Documents:
Draft report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

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9 Consideration of draft report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Great British Energy Bill

(Pages 94 - 98)

Attached Documents:
Draft report on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Great British Energy Bill

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