Meeting Venue:
Committee room 3
Senedd and video
Conference via
Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 25 February
2026
Meeting time: 09.30 - 12.07
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15825
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
Joyce Watson MS
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Witnesses:
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Ken Skates MS, Cabinet Secretary for Transport
and North Wales
Peter McDonald, Welsh Government
Alex Walters, Welsh Government
Alison Thomas, Welsh Government
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Committee Staff:
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Manon George (Clerk)
Elizabeth Wilkinson (Second Clerk)
Lukas Evans Santos (Deputy Clerk)
Jennifer Cottle (Legal Adviser)
Andrew Minnis (Researcher)
Sara Moran (Researcher)
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<AI1>
1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions,
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the
meeting.
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<AI2>
2
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary
for Transport and North Wales
2.1 The Committee received evidence from the
Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales and officials.
</AI2>
<AI3>
3
Papers to note
3.1 The papers were noted.
</AI3>
<AI4>
3.1
The Deposit Return Scheme
</AI4>
<AI5>
3.2
Transport Inter-Ministerial Standing
Committee
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<AI6>
3.3
The Aarhus Convention and its importance
in Wales
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<AI7>
3.4
Interministerial Group for Net Zero,
Energy and Climate Change
</AI7>
<AI8>
3.5
UK Government’s Auction Round 7 for
the contract for difference - Energy projects
</AI8>
<AI9>
3.6
Holyhead Port Storm Damage and
Closure
</AI9>
<AI10>
3.7
The UK-Germany Treaty on Friendship and
Bilateral Cooperation
</AI10>
<AI11>
3.8
Petition P-06-1553 Increase investment
and action in nature-based flood management to protect Welsh
communities
</AI11>
<AI12>
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.
</AI12>
<AI13>
5
Consideration of evidence received under
item 2
5.1 Members considered the
evidence heard under item 2.
</AI13>
<AI14>
6
Consideration of the Legislative Consent
Memoranda on the Railways Bill
6.1 The Committee considered the Legislative
Consent Memoranda on the Railways Bill.
</AI14>
<AI15>
7
The UK-Germany Treaty on Friendship and
Bilateral Cooperation
7.1 The Committee considered the UK-Germany
Treaty on Friendship and Bilateral Cooperation.
</AI15>
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