Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - The Senedd

Meeting date: Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Meeting time: 09.20 - 12.30
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/4886


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Attendance

Category

Names

Assembly Members:

Mike Hedges AM (Chair)

Gareth Bennett AM

Dawn Bowden AM

Jayne Bryant AM

Dai Lloyd AM

David Melding AM

Simon Thomas AM

Joyce Watson AM

Witnesses:

Lesley Griffiths AM, Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs

Tim Render, Welsh Government

Christianne Glossop, Chief Veterinary Officer, Welsh Government

Committee Staff:

Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk)

Martha Da Gama Howells (Second Clerk)

Chloe Corbyn (Researcher)

Elfyn Henderson (Researcher)

Katy Orford (Researcher)

 

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1       Private pre-briefing: Brexit monitoring

Members received a briefing from Elfyn Henderson from the Research Service on Brexit developments in UK legislatures.

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2       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

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3       Scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs - Brexit and general scrutiny

Members asked questions of the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs and the Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales on the Welsh Government’s Refreshed Bovine TB Eradication Strategy and preparedness for Brexit.

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4       Paper(s) to note

Members noted the papers.

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4.1   Letter from the Finance Committee on the Welsh Government's Draft Budget 2019-20

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4.2   Letter to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on environmental principles and governance post-Brexit

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4.3   Response from the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs to the report on Environmental governance arrangements and environmental principles post-Brexit

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4.4   Written Response by the Welsh Government to the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee's report: The Welsh Government's progress on climate change mitigation

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the remainder of the meeting

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6       Discussion of the draft report of the inquiry into Low Carbon Housing: the Challenge

Members agreed the draft report to be published in August 2018 with some amendments.

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7       Discussion of the draft report on Common frameworks for the environment after Brexit

Members agreed the report with some amendments.

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8       Discussion of the draft forward work programme

Members agreed the forward work programme.

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