Meetings

P-04-536 Stop Factory Dairy Farming in Wales

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

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Meeting: 24/02/2015 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 5)

5 P-04-536 Stop Factory Dairy Farming in Wales

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Minutes:

The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to:

 

·         Draw the petitioners’ additional comments to the attention of the Minister for Natural Resources: and

·         Close the petition given the acceptance on both sides that Wales has a good record on animal husbandry and promotes high standards of farm animal welfare and that no clear evidence has been produced to demonstrate that there is any particular problem in Wales beyond the need for continued vigilance.


Meeting: 22/01/2015 - Environment and Sustainability Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)

2 Petition P-04-536 Stop Factory Dairy Farming in Wales: Correspondence from the Chair of the Petitions Committee

E&S(4)-02-15 Paper 2

 

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Minutes:

2.2 Members noted the correspondence.


Meeting: 21/10/2014 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)

2 P-04-536 Stop Factory Dairy Farming in Wales

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Minutes:

The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to:

·         Seek the Minister for Natural Resources’ views on the petitioner’s further comments and asking him to clarify why it is not appropriate to read across the findings and conclusions from the PCIFAP study in the USA and to provide further evidence for his view that larger farms don’t affect the viability of smaller farms; and

·         Write again to the Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Committee asking whether they could consider looking at these issues as part of their forward work programme.


Meeting: 01/07/2014 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)

3 P-04-536 Stop Factory Dairy Farming in Wales

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Minutes:

The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to:

 

  • write to the Environment and Sustainability Committee to ask whether they could consider looking at the issues as part of their forward work programme and depending on their response;

·         consider undertaking a piece of work on the petition as part of the Petitions Committee’s forward work programme; and

  • write to the Minister for Housing and Regeneration and Natural Resources Wales giving them the opportunity to respond to the issues raised by the petitioners.

Meeting: 17/06/2014 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)

3 P-04-536 Stop Factory Dairy Farming in Wales

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the legal briefing note on the petition and agreed to consider the petition further at the next Committee meeting.


Meeting: 03/06/2014 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)

3 P-04-536 Stop Factory Dairy Farming in Wales

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Minutes:

The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to defer consideration of the item until the next meeting pending legal advice.


Meeting: 18/02/2014 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)

2 P-04-536 Stop Factory Dairy Farming in Wales

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to write to the Minister write to:

 

·         the Minister for Housing and Regeneration; and

·         the Minister for Natural Resources and Food

 

seeking their views on the petition.