Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - Senedd

Meeting date: Wednesday, 8 January 2020

Meeting time: 09.00 - 12.15
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5924


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Attendance

Category

Names

Assembly Members:

Mike Hedges AM (Chair)

Llyr Gruffydd AM

Neil Hamilton AM

Jenny Rathbone AM

Joyce Watson AM

Witnesses:

Heléna Herklots, Older People's Commissioner for Wales

Professor Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales

Lindsey Murray, Warm Wales

Adam Scorer, National Energy Action (NEA)

Adam Smiley, Scope

Steffan Evans, Bevan Foundation

Committee Staff:

Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk)

Andrea Storer (Deputy Clerk)

Emily Williams (Researcher)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1        The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.

1.2        Apologies were received from Andrew RT Davies AM.

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2       Fuel Poverty - evidence session 1

2.1 The Committee received evidence from Heléna Herklots CBE, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales; Prof Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales, and Adam Smiley, Scope.

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3       Fuel Poverty - evidence session 2

3.1 The Committee received evidence from Dr Steffan Evans, Bevan Foundation; Lindsay Murray, Warm Wales, and Adam Scorer, National Energy Action.

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4       Paper(s) to note

4.1 The Committee noted the papers.

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4.1   Welsh Government response to the Committee's report on The Welsh Government's proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme: restoring biodiversity

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4.2   Letter to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs - follow up from scrutiny session on 20 November 2019

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4.3   Letter to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs - follow up to the Welsh Government's response to the Committee's report on Environmental Principles and Governance post-Brexit

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4.4   Letter to the Chair of Natural Resources Wales - invitation to attend an annual scrutiny session

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4.5   Correspondence from the Chair of the External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee to Jeremy Miles AM, Counsel General and Brexit Minister - follow-up work on Brexit preparedness

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting

5.1 The Committee resolved to exclude the public from item 6 of today’s meeting.

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6       Consideration of evidence received under items 2 and 3

6.1 Members discussed the evidence received under items 2 and 3.

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