Agenda - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee room 5 - Tŷ Hywel

and video conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 15 May 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Robert Donovan

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddEconomy@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

09.10 - 09.30

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Public session

09.30 - 13.50

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Soil Health in Agriculture: Panel 2

09.30 - 10.45 (Pages 1 - 39)

Andrew Tuddenham, Head of Policy, Soil Association Cymru

Rhys Evans, Wales Manager, Nature Friendly Farming Network

Ellen Fay, co-Executive Director, Sustainable Soils Alliance

Attached Documents:
Research Brief
Evidence paper - Soil Association Cymru
Evidence paper - Nature Friendly Farming Network Cymru

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Break

10.45 - 10.55

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3 Soil Health in Agriculture: Panel 3

10.55 - 12.10 (Pages 40 - 64)

Abi Reader, Deputy President, NFU Cymru

Teleri Fielden, Policy Officer, Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW)

Fraser McAuley, Senior Policy Adviser, Country Land and Business Association (CLA)

Attached Documents:
Evidence paper - Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW)
Evidence paper - National Farmers' Union Cymru (NFU)

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Break

12.10 - 12.50

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4 Soil Health in Agriculture: Panel 4

12.50 - 13.50 (Pages 65 - 82)

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

James Cooke - Head of Agricultural Land Use Policy, Welsh Government

Andrew Chambers - Head of Agriculture Legislative Framework Branch, Welsh Government

Naomi Matthiessen - Deputy Director - Landscapes, Nature & Forestry, Welsh Government

Attached Documents:
Evidence paper - Welsh Government

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5 Papers to note

13.50

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5.1 Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

(Page 83)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs - 1 May 2025

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5.2 Request for economic impact assessment of proposed closures in languages and cultures at Cardiff University

(Pages 84 - 85)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages, UK Parliament - 1 May 2025

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5.3 UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly

(Pages 86 - 97)

Attached Documents:
UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (PPA): Fifth meeting summary report - 29 April 2025

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5.4 Meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group on UK-EU relations

(Page 98)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning - 8 May 2025

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5.5 Memorandum of Understanding between the Department for Work and Pensions and Welsh Government - Delivery of the Economic Inactivity Trailblazer in Wales (“The Trailblazer”)

(Page 99)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee - 8 May 2025

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

13.50

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Private session

13.50 - 14.10

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7 Consideration of evidence following the meeting

13.50 - 14.05

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8 Apprenticeship Pathways: Key issues discussion

14.05-14.10 (Pages 100 - 114)

Attached Documents:
Key issues paper

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