Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - Senedd

Meeting date: Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Meeting time: 09. - 12.00
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5091

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Attendance

Category	Names
Assembly Members:	Mike Hedges AM (Chair) Gareth Bennett AM Jayne Bryant AM Darren Millar AM (In place of Andrew RT Davies AM) John Griffiths AM Llyr Gruffydd AM (In place of Dai Lloyd AM) Joyce Watson AM
Witnesses:	Professor Mike Christie, Aberystwyth University Dr Neal Hockley, Bangor University Arfon Williams, RSPB Rachel Sharp, Wildlife Trusts Wales Nick Fenwick, Farmers' Union of Wales Dylan Morgan, Deputy Director, National Farmers' Union Cymru Dr Patrick McGurn, AranLIFE Jennifer Manning, Dartmoor Farming Futures Project Tracy May, Dartmoor Farming Futures Project
Committee Staff:	Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk) Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk) Katy Orford (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Apologies were received from Andrew R T Davies and Dai Lloyd, for whom Darren Millar and Llyr Gruffydd substituted.

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2 The Future of Land Management in Wales: assessing an outcomes-based approach to payment for public goods:  evidence session one

The Committee took oral evidence from Professor Mike Christie and

Dr Neal Hockley to inform its inquiry.

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3 The Future of Land Management in Wales: assessing an outcomes-based approach to payment for public goods:  evidence session two

The Committee took oral evidence from Arfon Williams, Rachel Sharp, Dr Nick Fenwick and Dylan Morgan to inform its inquiry.

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4 The Future of Land Management in Wales: assessing an outcomes-based approach to payment for public goods:  evidence session three

The Committee took oral evdience from Dr Patrick McGurn, Jennifer Manning and Tracy May to inform its inquiry.

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5 Paper(s) to note

The Committee noted the papers under item 5.

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5.1 Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs to the Chair of Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee - Agriculture Bill

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5.2 Paper from Coed Cadw - the Woodland Trust: Brexit and our Land

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6 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for items seven and eight

The Committee resolved to exclude the public from the meeting for items 7 and 8.

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7 The Future of Land Management in Wales: assessing an outcomes-based approach to payment for public goods:  consideration of oral evidence received under items two, three and four

The Committee considered the oral evdience received under items 2, 3 and 4.

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8 Discussion of forward work programme

The Committee agreed, in principle, to undertake a visit to the Institute of Biological and Environmental Rural Sciences as part of the Senedd@Aberystwyth event on 6 December.

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