Europe and international relations

Ned Hammond

21 March 2024, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Inquiry: Green Economy - Panel 3 - Independent experts

…economy, and those things that we've identified are public investment, planning, skills, regulation and international relations. I guess a couple of things that we may well come on to over the following questions, but in particular picking up those things around skills and planning, there is a big…

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Sarah Evans

21 March 2024, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Inquiry: Green Economy - Panel 2 - Alternative Models of Ownership

…such an issue at the moment to the third sector and the social enterprise sector in Wales. The loss of EU funding, shared prosperity looking very different in every different county across Wales. And it's how can they be accessing funding to really support this transition and play the role we know…

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Sarah Evans

21 March 2024, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Inquiry: Green Economy - Panel 2 - Alternative Models of Ownership

…models of delivery. I think we've seen, by providing that support—. The project was funded by EU funding, now totally funded by Welsh Government. But we're seeing a sector that's really growing, and, when we did our last mapping exercise of the sector, we're seeing a sector that's almost up, now, to…

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Ben Burggraaf

21 March 2024, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Inquiry: Green Economy - Panel 1 - Business and Renewables

…collected into the Treasury from May 2021 up until now. And hardly any of that has been recovered. The European Union has earmarked 50 per cent of that to actually support the decarbonisation of industry. There is nothing like that in the UK. So, we need to be much clearer about how we do that.…

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Dr Ludivine Petetin

21 March 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with academics

…now—refused to engage with farmers, that also set it in a certain light in terms of comparing to the EU, where the Commission was like, 'Okay, we're going to talk to you.' And I think it's also the relationship that there was between the Government and the farmers that was already, 'Okay, they don't…

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Rhys Evans

21 March 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations

Just on that, Huw, I think, with the scheme in Ireland, for example, the farmer will only get a payment if they're on, I think, at least four or five out of 10, based on the co-developed scorecard. You could argue that that sort of exists now within the payment methodology. So, you get a payment for…

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Arfon Williams

21 March 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations

…move through the various stages of optional and collaborative in the way that we're seeing these in Ireland, around the Burren and areas like that, where there are big collaborate partnerships working on results-based schemes. But I think these are the sorts of things that we should be trialling…

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Huw Irranca-DaviesLabour

21 March 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations

…It's interesting you were talking about pilots, because they might show us the way, what's going on in Ireland might show us the way, but it should be on top of the other things that give certainty.

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Rhys Evans

21 March 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations

…the success of any results-based scheme. If the Senedd have the budget, I would recommend you go out to Ireland to actually see these schemes first-hand and speak to some of the farmers who have been involved in it, because they do work, and the payments are sort of weighted then towards those…

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Andrew Tuddenham

21 March 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with environmental organisations

…their decisions on getting greater results and receiving more payments. There's evidence right across Ireland with these schemes working. It's not a completely new concept. Welsh Government is also piloting it in a limited context with environmental impact assessment type habitats.

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George Dunn

21 March 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with farming representatives

Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to put on record that we are eight years away from when we voted to leave the European Union. My colleagues in the FUW and NFU, and ourselves, have spent an inordinate amount of time talking about these issues over the past eight years with Welsh Government, but we…

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Rachel Lewis-Davies

21 March 2024, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Welsh Government’s proposals for a Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS): evidence session with farming representatives

…have to operate above a solid foundation in the first instance. That's the model in the rest of the EU.

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