Natural Resources Wales

Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…supportive of the measures in the Bill that will actually provide more effective enforcement options to NRW. Adriana, I wonder if I can turn to you to add something to that, please.

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…whether penalty charges or funds that accrue through this legislation, to be here within Wales, so that NRW or the Drinking Water Inspectorate can make full use of them. So, that's the nature of the engagement we currently have with the UK Government. It's probably fair to say that those discussions…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…Welsh Ministers under the Bill. So, there will be full opportunity for proper scrutiny then in detail. NRW are considering the offences that could fall under the clause as part of the implementation plan of the Bill, again giving the opportunity for proper scrutiny, but, to be clear, it will be…

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Janet Finch-SaundersConservative

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Legislative Consent: Water (Special Measures) Bill - Evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…out where they believe there are pollution incidents, and it takes so long to get Dŵr Cymru and NRW to actually come back and respond to me. Sometimes it's through no fault of their own, but on occasion—. People are really becoming quite annoyed about this. It's affecting our seas and those wild…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…we can always do more. But, actually, the extent of what we're doing is huge already, including what NRW's contributing, by the way, as well. But how do we actually act on that? Well, that is integral now to all Government and public body decision making. We're subject to the section 6 duty on…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

I think, with some honesty, Julie—. NRW has just gone through a consultation, which has just closed, and its engagement with the unions, and the process of that has been for them, in those consultations, to look at some really difficult decisions, as we know—it has featured on the floor of the…

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Julie MorganLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

Thank you. I was going to ask you about funding for Natural Resources Wales. We've heard repeated concerns that NRW doesn't have enough funding to carry out its biodiversity function. So, I wondered how you responded to those concerns that we've had.

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…we've had people like the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts Wales, WWF, the Marine Conservation Society, Dŵr Cymru, Natural Resources Wales, who have got experience in driving this forward. But it's based on can we get to a way in which we can identify additional funding that could come in that would support…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…I can also confirm to the committee that we've received more detailed conservation advice from both NRW and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee in relation to those proposed sites, and this will be shared. It's come to my officials, and that'll be shared with me in due course, as well. You're…

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

Okay. I have some evidence of some local SSSIs, where we've alerted NRW to it, but they won't come out and visit, because they haven't got the resources, the funding, or they just can't do it. So, it's a case of writing to the landowner to make sure that they're managed in a good way, so I just…

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…you doing to try and improve that? It used to be the Countryside Council for Wales, I think, and now NRW try and look after the SSSIs, but there is an issue there regarding resources.

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

16 October 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Halting and reversing the loss of nature by 2030 - evidence session with the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs

…that we're going to reach those targets, and they were very aware of resource constraints. I missed out Natural Resources Wales in that as well, because they do a lot, don't they, as well. I know that a lot of the funding is being reviewed at the moment, with the Nature Networks fund, the local…

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