DRAFT MINUTES

DRAFT MINUTES

Meeting ID	15376
Committee	Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Date	09/10/2025
Attendees	Llyr Gruffydd MS (Chair) Janet Finch-Saunders MS (Member) Delyth Jewell MS (Member) Julie Morgan MS (Member) Carolyn Thomas MS (Member) Joyce Watson MS (Member) Marc Wyn Jones (Notifications Only) (Clerk) Manon George (Clerk) Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk) Lukas Evans Santos (Deputy Clerk) Mahima Khan (Monitor) Rhayna Mann (Monitor) Llyr Wilson-Price (Monitor) Katie Wyatt (Legal Adviser) Matthew Richards (Monitor) Andrew Minnis (Researcher) Chloe Corbyn (Monitor) Armandine Debus (Monitor) Elfyn Henderson (Monitor) Francesca Howorth (Monitor) Sara Moran (Monitor) Katy Orford (Monitor) Kathryn Potter (Monitor) Lorna Scurlock (Monitor) Ben Stokes (Monitor) Matthew Sutton (Monitor) Robin Wilkinson (Monitor) Liesl van de Vyver Blackman (Monitor) MSS Llyr Gruffydd (Monitor) MSS Janet Finch-Saunders (Monitor) MSS Delyth Jewell (Monitor) MSS Julie Morgan (Monitor) MSS Carolyn Thomas (Monitor) MSS Joyce Watson (Monitor) Central Admin (Monitor) Access All Committees (Monitor) TRS Admin group (Monitor) TRS - Users (Monitor) Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee (Monitor) Access to Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee (Monitor) Publishers for Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee (Sixth Senedd) (Monitor)

Item ID	100152
Item Title	Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Summary	1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting. 1.2 Apologies were received from Carolyn Thomas MS.

Item ID	100153
Item Title	Papers to note
Summary	2.1 The papers were noted.

Item ID	100155
Item Title	UK Emissions Trading Scheme
Summary

Item ID	100157
Item Title	P-06-1506 We call for an end to further public funding for cycle paths and cycle Infrastructure in Wales
Summary

Item ID	100158
Item Title	Rail investment announcements in the Comprehensive Spending Review 2025
Summary

Item ID	100159
Item Title	Rulings on greener homes advertisement
Summary

Item ID	100160
Item Title	Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement
Summary

Item ID	100161
Item Title	Announcement of the Dwr Cymru Welsh Water transformation programme
Summary

Item ID	100162
Item Title	The response to recent storms
Summary

Item ID	100163
Item Title	Great British Energy
Summary

Item ID	100164
Item Title	Welsh Government staffing capacity and delivery of the Programme for Government
Summary

Item ID	100165
Item Title	Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27
Summary

Item ID	100255
Item Title	Scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales
Summary

Item ID	100256
Item Title	Independent Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales - SPA network in Wales
Summary

Item ID	100262
Item Title	Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill
Summary

Item ID	100435
Item Title	Scrutiny of Transport for Wales
Summary

Item ID	100154
Item Title	Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and from the start of the meeting on 16 October 2025
Summary	3.1 The motion was agreed.

Item ID	100254
Item Title	Bus Services (Wales) Bill - Order of consideration at Stage 2
Summary	4.1 The Committee agreed the Order of Consideration.

Item ID	100166
Item Title	Chair's Forum consultation: Reviewing Committee Effectiveness in the Sixth Senedd
Summary	5.1 The Committee considered the review of Committee effectiveness in the Sixth Senedd and agreed to write back to the Chair’s forum with its views.