, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you. And the committee will, on that wonderful note, break for 10 minutes, and we'll reconvene for a 10:40 start. Diolch yn fawr.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
And I think Jenny wants to add a little—.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Thank you very much. That perfectly brings us to the end of our allotted time slot. Can I thank you, Lord Deben, for your attendance this morning, along with your officials? It's been alluded to earlier that this is likely to be your last appearance before us…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Excellent. Thank you. We'll move on to Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Thank you. There we are; okay, Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Yes, but Janet, had you been listening, those issues had already been addressed earlier in the session, I'm afraid.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
No, you're not, Janet, I'm afraid.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Thank you, Joyce. Okay, I think we're going to move on now to Janet, who's going to ask about surplus emissions, I think.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Okay, thank you for that. We've covered carbon budgets 2 and 3 sufficiently there, I think, so we'll move on to Joyce next.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
No, Huw is content, so we'll move on to Jenny.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
There we are. Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Delyth, briefly, and then we'll move on to another area of questioning.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
I'm sorry, I think we need to get on with it as well, to be honest, because we are halfway through our allocated time and we're only part way through the areas we wish to cover, so if you forgive me, we might come back to it later on.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Okay. Jenny, did you want to come in? Yes, there we are. And then we'll come back to Delyth.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Yes. And we're not very far off St David's Day and, of course, St David's mantra was, 'Do the small things', so it's quite appropriate that we refer to that, I think. Delyth.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Excellent. Thank you for that. We'll move on now, then, to Janet.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Indeed, and I'm interested, really, in that point about—. Given that the Welsh Government chose their own path, and rightly so, as you say, could you tell us a bit about the dynamism of the relationship between you and the Government as a committee? I know…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Yes, sure. Huw, you wanted to come in as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Carbon Budget 1 and Net Zero Wales
Okay, we can move on, therefore, to our next item, which is our first evidence session on Net Zero Wales and carbon budgets. I'm delighted to welcome our witnesses this morning, Lord Deben, the chair of the Climate Change Committee—a warm welcome to you—and…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome to you all to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee at the Welsh Parliament. A warm welcome to Members. Of course, we are holding this meeting in hybrid format, and, aside from the adaptations…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Indeed. There we are. Okay. Any further questions? I think we've covered all of the bases that we were hoping to pursue, so can I thank both the Minister and the Deputy Minister, and your officials, not only for appearing before us but for being with us in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
No, that's fine. It is early days, but obviously there's work to be done leading up to that date, isn't there?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Okay. Thank you. Just finally, I was going to ask you a few questions around the deposit-return scheme and an update around that, but clearly we've read in the news recently that there has been a significant announcement made. Maybe you could just tell us a…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
Water, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 - part 2
That's very useful. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Right, Joyce.
