Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel

and video Conference via Zoom

Meeting date: Wednesday, 14 January 2026

Meeting time: 09.30 - 11.20
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15710

Hybrid

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Attendance

Category	Names
Members of the Senedd:	Llyr Gruffydd MS (Chair) Janet Finch-Saunders MS Delyth Jewell MS Julie Morgan MS Carolyn Thomas MS Joyce Watson MS
Witnesses:	Rachael Cunningham, Natural Resources Wales Ceri Davies, Natural Resources Wales Nilesh Sachdev, Welsh Government’s preferred candidate for Chair of Natural Resources Wales
Committee Staff:	Manon George (Clerk) Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk) Lukas Evans Santos (Deputy Clerk) Claire Butterworth (Legal Adviser) Lorna Scurlock (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.

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2 Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales

2.1 The Committee received evidence from representatives from Natural Resources Wales.

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3 Papers to note

3.1 The papers were noted.

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3.1 Dwr Cymru’s Trawsnewid Programme

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3.2 Scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales

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3.3 Scrutiny of Transport for Wales

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3.4 Petition P-06-1521: Give park home residents in Wales the right to a water meter

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3.5 Petition P-06-1541 Produce a Clean Water Bill for Wales and for Welsh Rivers

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3.6 Petition P-06-1552 Stop building industrial solar ‘farms’ close to residential buildings and within village boundaries

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3.7 Petition P-06-1553 Increase investment and action in nature-based flood management to protect Welsh communities

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3.8 Deposit return scheme

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3.9 Renewable energy development figures

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4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting

4.1 The motion was agreed.

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5 Consideration of evidence received under item 2

5.1 Members considered the evidence heard under item 2.

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6 Consideration of draft report on the Legislative Consent Memoranda for the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill

6.1 The Committee considered the Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum No. 3 on the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill.

6.2 The Committee agreed to amend the draft report to take account of its views on Memorandum No. 3 and for those amendments to be agreed outside of committee to ensure the reporting deadline could be met.

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