Agenda and minutes

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Transcript: Transcript for 05/10/2022 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Items
Expected timing No. Item

(10.00)

1.

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Minutes:

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.

1.2 There were no apologies or substitutions.

1.3 Samuel Kurtz MS declared he was a director of the Wales Federation of Young Farmers Clubs.

 

(10.00)

2.

Papers to note

Minutes:

2.1 The papers were noted.

2.1

Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd

Supporting documents:

2.2

Letter from the Minister for Economy and the Minister for Finance and Local Government

Supporting documents:

(10.00-12.00)

3.

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1

Lesley Griffiths MS, Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd

James Owen, Deputy Director, Land Management Reform Division

Hannah Fernandez, Head of LMR Policy Instructions, Land Management Reform Division

Dorian Brunt, Senior Lawyer, Rural Affairs Team

William (Bill) Cordingley, Lawyer

Minutes:

3.1 The Committee heard evidence from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales.

3.2 The Committee would be provided with a note confirming the Minister’s view that the provisions in s.28 of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill - on the purposes for which information may be processed - do not include the selling of data to third parties.

 

 

(12.00)

4.

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

Minutes:

4.1 The motion was agreed.

(12.00-12.20)

5.

Private

Consideration of evidence following the meeting

Minutes:

5.1 The Members considered the evidence heard in the previous Ministerial evidence session.