Concise Minutes - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee

Meeting Venue:

Video Conference via Zoom

Meeting date: Thursday, 8 October 2020

Meeting time: 13.45 - 16.30
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/6521

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Attendance

Category

Names

Assembly Members:

Mick Antoniw MS (In place of Mike Hedges MS)

Janet Finch-Saunders MS

Llyr Gruffydd MS

Neil Hamilton MS

Jenny Rathbone MS (Chair)

Joyce Watson MS

Witnesses:

Gian Marco Currado, Welsh Government

Andy Fraser, Welsh Government

Lesley Griffiths MS

Catriona Hawthorne, Welsh Government

James Morris, Welsh Government

Rhiannon Phillips, Welsh Government

Christine Wheeler, Welsh Government

Committee Staff:

Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk)

Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk)

Andrea Storer (Deputy Clerk)

Chloe Corbyn (Researcher)

Francesca Howorth (Researcher)

 

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In the absence of the Chair, Jenny Rathbone MS was elected temporary Chair under Standing Order 17.22

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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 Mike Hedges MS and Mick Antoniw MS substituted for him.

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2       UK Emissions Trading Scheme: evidence session with the Welsh Government

2.1 Members questioned the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs and her officials on the UK Emissions Trading Scheme.

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3       Scrutiny session with the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs on the Welsh Government's response to flooding

3.1 Members questioned the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs and her officials on the Welsh Government’s response to flooding.

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4       Paper(s) to note

4.1 The papers were noted.

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4.1   Correspondence from the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs - Update on the UK Fisheries Bill and response to the Committee's report on the Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No. 2) on the UK Fisheries Bill

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4.2   Correspondence from the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs - Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum (Memorandum No 4) on the UK Agriculture Bill

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and from the first session of the meeting on 15 October 2020

5.1 The motion was agreed.

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6       Consideration of evidence received under item 2

6.1 Members considered the evidence heard during the evidence session and agreed to write to the Minister to request further information on some of the issues raised during the session.

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7       Consideration of evidence received under item 3

7.1 Members discussed the evidence heard during the scrutiny session.

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