Meeting Venue:
Hybrid: Committee room 4 Tŷ Hywel
and video Conference via Zoom Meeting date: 22 September 2022
Meeting time: 09.15
For further information contact:
Marc Wyn Jones
Committee Clerk
0300 200 6565
SeneddClimate@senedd.wales
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Private pre-meeting (09.15-09.40)
Public meeting
1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
(09.40)
2 Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session 1
(09.40-10.40) (Pages 1 - 58)
Jemma Bere, Policy & Research Manager - Keep Wales Tidy
Liz Smith, Advocacy & Policy Officer - Wales Environment Link
The Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
Attached Documents:
Research brief
Bill Summary
Paper - Wales Environment Link
Paper - Keep Wales Tidy
Break (10.40-10.50)
3 Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session 2
(10.50-11.50) (Pages 59 - 66)
Brett John, Deputy Head of Policy (Wales) - Federation of Small Businesses
David Chapman, Executive Director for Wales - UK Hospitality Wales
Attached Documents:
Paper - Federation of Small Businesses
Paper - UK Hospitality Wales
Break (11.50-12.00)
4 Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session 3
(12.00-13.00) (Pages 67 - 71)
Dr Richard Caddell – Reader in Law, School of Law and Politics - Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University
Will Henson, Policy & External Affairs Manager - Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA)
Megan Thomas, Policy and Research Officer - Disability Wales
Attached Documents:
Paper - Dr Richard Cadell
Paper - Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA)
Lunch break (13.00-13.25)
Private pre-meeting (13.25-13.30)
5 Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - evidence session 4
(13.30-14.15) (Pages 72 - 75)
Ben Maizey, Chair of Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) Wales
Attached Documents:
Paper - Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
(CIWM)
6 Papers to note
(14.15)
6.1 Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
(Pages 76 - 79)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to Y Llywydd and Chair of the Business
Committee in relation to the Single Use Plastics Bill
Response from Y Llywydd and Chair of the Business Committee to the
Chair’s letter of 11 July 2022 in relation to the Single Use
Plastics Bill
6.2 Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill
(Pages 80 - 81)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Climate Change in
relation to the scrutiny and proposed timetable for the Single Use
Plastics Bill
6.3 Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) for the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
(Pages 82 - 83)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution
Committee to the Minister for Finance and Local Government in
relation to the Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) for the UK
Infrastructure Bank Bill
6.4 Legislative Consent Memorandum (LCM) for the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
(Pages 84 - 92)
Attached Documents:
Response from the Minister for Finance and Local Government to the
Chair’s letter of 30 June 2022 in relation to the Legislative
Consent Memorandum (LCM) for the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
Letter from the Chair to the Chief Executive Officer of the UK
Infrastructure Bank in relation to the UK Infrastructure Bank
Bill
Response from the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Infrastructure
Bank to the Chair’s letter of 29 July 2022 in relation
to the UK Infrastructure Bank Bill
6.5 Scrutiny of the Minister and Deputy Minister for Climate Change
(Pages 93 - 99)
Attached Documents:
Response from the Minister for Climate Change to the Chair's letter
of 28 June 2022, following the 15 June Ministerial scrutiny
session
6.6 Renewable energy in Wales
(Pages 100 - 113)
Attached Documents:
Welsh Government response to the Committee’s report:
Renewable energy in Wales
6.7 Environmental governance Bill
(Page 114)
Attached Documents:
Response from the First Minister of Wales to the Chair’s
letter of 1 July 2022 in relation to an environmental governance
Bill
6.8 Inter-Ministerial Group for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
(Pages 115 - 117)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and
Trefnydd to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution
Committee in relation to the Inter-Ministerial Group for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs meeting held on 20 July
2022.
6.9 Decarbonisation of housing - Welsh Quality Housing Standard
(Pages 118 - 119)
Attached Documents:
Letter to the Chair from Community Housing Cymru, Chartered
Institute of Housing Cymru, and Housing Leadership Cymru in
relation to the Welsh Quality Housing Standard -
WHQS2023
6.10Avian influenza
(Page 120)
Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Climate Change in
relation to avian influenza
6.11House of Lords European Affairs Committee inquiry into the UK’s future relationship with the EU
(Page 121)
Attached Documents:
Letter from Lord Kinnoull to the Chair in relation to the House of
Lords European Affairs Committee inquiry into the UK’s future
relationship with the EU.
7 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting
(14.15)
Private meeting (14.15 - 14.45)
8 Draft Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic) Bill - consideration of evidence heard under items 2, 3, 4, and 5
9 Consideration of the Committee's draft report on operation of the interim environmental protection measures
(Pages 122 - 133)
Attached Documents:
Draft report
10 Consideration of the Committee's draft report on the future of bus and rail in Wales
(Pages 134 - 180)
Attached Documents:
Draft report
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