Meeting Venue:
Committee Room 3 - Senedd
Meeting date: Thursday, 8 November 2018
Meeting time: 10.30 - 13.00
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5084
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Category |
Names |
Assembly Members: |
Mike Hedges AM (Chair) Gareth Bennett AM Jayne Bryant AM John Griffiths AM Llyr Gruffydd AM Joyce Watson AM Lesley Griffiths AM Hannah Blythyn AM |
Witnesses: |
Tim Render, Welsh Government Christianne Glossop, Chief Veterinary Officer, Welsh Government Dean Medcraft, Welsh Government |
Committee Staff: |
Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk) Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk) Katy Orford (Researcher) |
1.1 Apologies were received from Andrew RT Davies.
1.2 The Chair welcomed Llyr Gruffydd to the meeting who replaces Dai Lloyd as a permanent member of the Committee. The Chair thanked Dai Lloyd for his contribution to the Committee’s work.
2.1 The Committee resolved to exclude the public from the meeting for items 3 and 4.
3.1 The Committee agreed to write to the Business Committee to request an extension to its reporting deadline on the Legislative Consent Memorandum for the Agriculture Bill.
3.2 The Committee considered potential inquiries for the spring term. It agreed to undertake an inquiry into biodiversity as soon as its work programme permits. The Committee will consider a scope and approach paper in due course.
4.1 The Committee received an oral briefing on the Welsh Government’s draft budget 2019-20 from officials from the Assembly’s Research Service.
5.1 The Committee took oral evidence from the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs and the Minister for Environment to inform its inquiry.
The Committee noted the papers under item 6.
7.1 The Committee resolved to exclude the public from the meeting for item 8.
8.1 The Committee discussed the evidence received under item 5.