Natural Resources Wales

Rhian Jardine

20 September 2023, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Natural Resources Wales and the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales

—we did originally respond to the White Paper in the summer of 2018, and met with Welsh Government officials at that point. We were then re-approached in early 2022 for our views on developing an approach especially in relation to the deemed marine licences. Since that point, we've had sufficient…

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Llyr GruffyddPlaid

20 September 2023, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Natural Resources Wales and the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales

Okay, thank you. And what about Natural Resources Wales? Do you feel that you've been able to play a meaningful part in the development of the Bill to date?

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Dr David Clubb

20 September 2023, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Natural Resources Wales and the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales

We feel that we have had contact with the Government. I don't have much time—only a few days every month—to work on this, because we're doing a variety of things. But we welcome this opportunity, and we've welcomed the opportunity to write to the committee previously. We feel that the Government is…

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Dr David Clubb

20 September 2023, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Natural Resources Wales and the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales

We feel, as a commission, that there is a need for something like this, that ties many different things together, to help communities, to help developers, to help the authorities that manage the process, to make the process a speedier one and a clearer one. And I feel that, out of every comment that…

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Llyr GruffyddPlaid

20 September 2023, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Infrastructure (Wales) Bill - Evidence session with Natural Resources Wales and the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales

…on the Infrastructure (Wales) Bill, and, for this first panel this morning, we welcome members from Natural Resources Wales and the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales. May I extend a warm welcome to Lisa Phillips, who's senior specialist adviser in the water, land, biodiversity and marine…

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Peredur Owen GriffithsPlaid

13 September 2023, Finance Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25—Pre-budget scrutiny

There's a slight distinction, isn't there? You've got directly funded bodies and then you've got Government bodies, arm's length, like Natural Resources Wales and some of the others. They're in a slightly different situation, where some can carry reserves and some can't. Some of the discussions that…

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Julie JamesLabour

12 September 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21

Diolch, Huw. We fund Natural Resources Wales and the local authorities to engage in this sort of activity, as I was saying to Heledd, throughout the year. There is on the NRW website something called 'What to do before, during or after a flood'—pretty straightforward, it's available on the website.…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

12 September 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21

Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, I welcome the statement today and the work of Professor Evans in this area. We didn't suffer the widespread devastation that some communities did a few years back, but what we did have was localised flooding that was because of those traumatic weather incidents. In…

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Julie JamesLabour

12 September 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21

Thank you, Vikki. It's a very good question and it was really good to have the meeting with you about the specific issues that were raised in your constituency. And that's a really interesting one, isn't it, because that kind of flash-flood-type worry that we have there is a really difficult one to…

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Vikki HowellsLabour

12 September 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21

Thank you, Minister, for your statement here today and for the work done by Professor Elwen Evans KC on this crucially important policy area. I welcome the recommendation of regularising the approach to flood investigation reports across our local authorities. I think this should lead to greater…

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Julie JamesLabour

12 September 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21

…least in response to some of the things you’ve raised in the Chamber, actually, around making sure that NRW works better with community groups. We’ve very many more community groups, I’m pleased to say, since we last discussed this in the Chamber, being set up as part of the package. We have 27…

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Heledd FychanPlaid

12 September 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21

…be asking where are those answers, and how do we ensure that the recommendations that came out in the Natural Resources Wales report as well, in terms of having that national conversation—where has that got to? I understand from your statement, Minister, that a number of things are happening. But…

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Julie JamesLabour

12 September 2023, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Independent review and Natural Resources Wales reports into flooding 2020-21

Thank you, Janet. I'm not absolutely certain quite what you're asking me there. I'm not going to set up a national agency for flooding. I'm absolutely convinced that the people who have suffered flooding over the last few years—and, indeed, before that—would be not at all comforted by the idea that…

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