Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel  

and video Conference via Zoom

Meeting date: Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Meeting time: 09.30 - 10.40
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15771


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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

Committee Staff:

Manon George (Clerk)

Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk)

Lukas Evans Santos (Deputy Clerk)

Jennifer Cottle (Legal Adviser)

Andrew Minnis (Researcher)

Francesca Howorth (Researcher)

Katy Orford (Researcher)

Charlotte Morgan (Researcher)

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       Papers to note

2.1 The papers were noted.

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2.1   The UK-Germany Treaty on Friendship and Bilateral Cooperation

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2.2   The Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (Wales) Regulations 2026

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2.3   The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Auctioning (Amendment) Regulations 2026

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2.4   The Welsh Government's Mining Legacy Group

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2.5   Onshore petroleum licensing

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2.6   Annual scrutiny of Transport for Wales

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2.7   Proposed relocation at Natural Resources Wales

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2.8   Annual scrutiny of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales

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2.9   Ministerial scrutiny sessions

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2.10 Transport Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee

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2.11 Legislative Consent: Railways Bill

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2.12 Session with Dwr Cymru Welsh Water

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2.13 UK Emissions Trading Scheme

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2.14 The draft Mandatory Water Efficiency Labelling Regulations 2025

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

3.1 The motion was agreed.

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4       Consideration of draft report on the Legislative Consent Memoranda for the Railways Bill

4.1 Members agreed the draft report subject to a few minor amendments.

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5       Consideration of the Committee's draft legacy report for the Sixth Senedd

5.1 Members agreed the draft report subject to a few minor amendments.

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