Relations with the UK Government

Luke FletcherPlaid

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

Diolch, Cadeirydd. It was actually around the point, Jennifer, that you just made around what happens now with Ynni Cymru and Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru, because I'm really interested in how they will interact with GB Energy. So, does that mean now, as we're waiting for that detail from GB Energy—and…

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Jennifer Pride

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Yes, I think it's been really interesting watching UK Government start to mobilise what was actually a central part of the Labour Government's manifesto commitment and take that level of detailed thinking that we've actually been doing around Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru and…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

I think it will take the UK Government some time to get to the point at which the business cases for particular projects come forward. So, with Ynni Cymru, we're essentially four years ahead of where the UK Government is at the moment—sorry, Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru; we're quite a significant way ahead.…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

So, we think that it would be the UK Government that would be providing that greater level of detail, particularly around the business cases. Of course, there's that interrelationship with Ynni Cymru and Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru as well, which, again, is at an early development stage, because this Bill…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

In relation to the Great British Energy Bill, that Bill, in itself, is actually very narrow, and what it does is enable the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero to designate a company as 'Great British Energy' and then put it on a statutory footing. So, the UK Government's impact…

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Natasha AsgharConservative

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

Thank you, Chair. Good morning, everyone. I'd just like to know if you could please elaborate for the benefit of the committee and committees here today what regulatory and financial impact assessments have you actually undertaken on the provision of the Bill that will ultimately impact Wales?

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

It's just the concern about the lack of involvement from the devolved—from the Senedd as well—to discuss all these matters, really, when things are added on. Thank you, Chair.

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Rebecca EvansLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

I think, with this particular Bill, the regulations that relate to product safety and metrology span to some 2,500 pages, and, as I understand it, they are frequently updated to keep pace with changes, and that's part of the reason why this is a framework Bill, because things change frequently. Lots…

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

…Protection and Digital Information Bill came before us, that was looking, again, at giving power to the Secretary of State for Wales, and then, last minute, the NUAR, the national underground asset register, was added on last minute as it was going through the UK Government. I'm not sure where that…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

…been really clear, everybody's been really clear that our principles that sit behind our approach to legislative consent motions and UK Government legislation haven't changed at all. I know that the Deputy First Minister and Counsel General are before this committee in a couple of weeks' time and…

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Alun DaviesLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

Previous Ministers sitting in this seat, of course, threatened to take the UK Government to court over the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020, and this committee was broadly supportive of that position. I think that's a very reasonable position to take, but it's very difficult to see what is in…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

So, these are the discussions that we're having currently with the UK Government around what the role of Welsh Ministers and the Senedd would be, particularly around the wording around 'consult', which is in the Bill. Obviously, our position would be to look for consent, so that really gets to the…

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Alun DaviesLabour

4 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Great British Energy Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning

No, I'd like to pursue that, if I could, before officials come in, because, yes, a framework Bill is how I would describe it as well. This committee doesn't like framework Bills, of course, and I don't like framework Bills, and I'm surprised that Welsh Ministers like framework Bills that give powers…

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