Meeting Venue:
Committee room 4
Tŷ Hywel
and video
Conference via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 11 February
2026
Meeting time: 09.29 - 11.42
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15738
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
Sioned Williams MS (In place of Delyth Jewell
MS)
Julie Morgan MS
Carolyn Thomas MS
Joyce Watson MS
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Witnesses:
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Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister
and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Claire Bennett, Welsh Government
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Committee Staff:
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Manon George (Clerk)
Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk)
Lukas Evans Santos (Deputy Clerk)
Matthew Sutton (Researcher)
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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 Delyth Jewell
MS and Sioned Williams MS substituted.
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2
General scrutiny of the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs
2.1 The Committee received evidence from the
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and
Rural Affairs and official.
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3
Papers to note
3.1 The papers were noted.
</AI3>
<AI4>
3.1
Welsh Government Draft Budget
2026-27
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<AI5>
3.2
Holyhead Port Storm Damage and
Closure
</AI5>
<AI6>
3.3
The Aarhus Convention and its importance
in Wales
</AI6>
<AI7>
3.4
A charter for a just transition to
net-zero
</AI7>
<AI8>
3.5
Petition P-06-1566 Welsh Government must
legislate for full regard to Local Nature Reserves including
Cosmeston LNR
</AI8>
<AI9>
4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi)
and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of
this meeting
4.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI9>
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5
Consideration of evidence received under
item 2
5.1 Members considered the
evidence heard under item 2.
</AI10>
<AI11>
6
Forward work programme
6.1 The Committee discussed and agreed its
Forward Work Programme.
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