Meeting Venue:
Committee room 3
Senedd and video
Conference via
Zoom
Meeting date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
Meeting time: 09.30 - 12.40
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15531
Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Llyr Gruffydd MS (Chair)
Janet Finch-Saunders MS
Delyth Jewell MS
Julie Morgan MS
Carolyn Thomas MS
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Witnesses:
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Jason Prince, Urban Transport Group
Llyr ap Gareth, Federation of Small Businesses
(FSB)
David Beer, Transport Focus
Rhian Bowen-Davies, Older People’s
Commissioner, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales
Rocio Cifuentes, Children's Commissioner for
Wales
Barclay Davies, Bus Users Cymru
Matt Goggins, South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined
Authority Executive
Nathan Owens, External Affairs Manager, Royal
National Institute of Blind People Cymru
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Committee Staff:
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Marc Wyn Jones (Clerk)
Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk)
Lukas Evans Santos (Deputy Clerk)
Katie Wyatt (Legal Adviser)
Andrew Minnis (Researcher)
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<AI1>
1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions,
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the
meeting.
1.2 Apologies were received from Joyce Watson
MS.
</AI1>
<AI2>
2
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Bus Services
(Wales) Bill - Evidence session with transport
authorities
2.1 The Committee received evidence from the
Urban Transport Group and South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined
Authority Executive.
</AI2>
<AI3>
3
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Bus Services
(Wales) Bill - Evidence session with passenger interests
organisations
3.1 The Committee received evidence from
Transport Focus and Bus Users Cymru.
</AI3>
<AI4>
4
Stage 1 scrutiny of the Bus Services
(Wales) Bill - Evidence session with civil society
organisations
4.1 The Committee received evidence from the
Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, the Children's
Commissioner for Wales, Federation of Small Businesses
Wales and Royal National Institute of Blind People Cymru.
</AI4>
<AI5>
5
Papers to note
5.1 The papers were noted.
5.2 Delyth Jewell MS raised concerns about
Ffos-y-Fran opencast coal mine. Members agreed to write to the
Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales.
</AI5>
<AI6>
5.1
Annual scrutiny of the National
Infrastructure Commission for Wales (NICW)
</AI6>
<AI7>
5.2
Inter-Ministerial Group for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs
</AI7>
<AI8>
5.3
Halting and reversing the loss of nature
by 2030
</AI8>
<AI9>
5.4
Inter-Institutional Relations
Agreement
</AI9>
<AI10>
5.5
The Environment (Principles, Governance
and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill
</AI10>
<AI11>
5.6
The Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2025
</AI11>
<AI12>
6
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi)
and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of
this meeting
6.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI12>
<AI13>
7
Consideration of draft letter to the
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and
Rural Affairs in relation to Welsh Government policies on Climate
Change
7.1 Members agreed the draft letter.
</AI13>
<AI14>
8
The Environment (Principles, Governance
and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill
8.1 Members considered and agreed the proposed
timetable for scrutiny of the Environment (Principles, Governance
and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill.
</AI14>
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