, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Thank you very much, James. Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 2
Welcome back to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee. We are continuing with our scrutiny of Transport for Wales, and we welcome back James Price and Geoff Ogden from Transport for Wales. We're now going to focus on…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Thanks. Okay. Thank you so much for that. I think that probably concludes the general scrutiny element of our meeting, and it's probably the right time for us just to take a short break. We'll break for 10 minutes. We'll reconvene just before 14:00 so that we…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Geoff.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay. And the transport planning skills gap—clearly, you have a role in supporting some of these bodies to make sure that they're delivering what we want them to deliver.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay. Thank you, Huw, and thank you, Geoff. Back to you, Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay. Would you allow me—? Can I—? Huw would like to come in, Joyce. Is it okay if I allow Huw to come in first, and then we'll move on?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, fine. Thank you. We'll move on, then, to Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Yes, okay. And, as I say, that's probably a question to Government more than to you in many respects. Back to Janet now, then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Thank you, Rhun. Just to pick up on the comments you made about there being about 20 or 25 bilateral discussions happening, how can we be confident that—maybe this is a question to Government, but, clearly, you will be diligent in this respect as well, I'm…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Thank you, Jenny. Rhun.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, and I'm sure we'll pick up on that a little bit later on as well. So, we'll move on to Jenny now then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay. So, you would expect with any additional responsibilities that funding would flow consequently from Government to cover that responsibility? Because we as a committee have received evidence, for example from Natural Resources Wales, where we're…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, there we are. Thank you for that. There are a few things to be done to follow up on those points, then. Thank you. We'll move on to Joyce.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Thank you, and it isn't just budget as well, because you have corporate key performance indicators. How are you performing against those KPIs and how do you report that publicly?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Briefly, then, yes. I think the question generally is: how can we see this information without bringing you before committee really, isn't it?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Yes. As and when is fine, James. And, Geoff, you interject as well, if you wish—that's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
We can hear you over the dog barking. That's fine. That's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of Transport for Wales - session 1
Okay, we'll move on to the main focus of this afternoon's meeting, namely to scrutinise the work of Transport for Wales. This is our first annual scrutiny session with Transport for Wales. The first part of the meeting will focus on general scrutiny on…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
A very warm welcome to you all to this meeting of the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee. I would like to welcome Members, first of all. We have received apologies from Delyth Jewell, and there's a particularly warm welcome to Rhun ap…
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
I also want to reiterate the committee's point about transparency from both the Welsh Government and the UK Government. It's a regular charade, isn't it, from the UK Government primarily, when they announce additional funding, they're giving more money, but…
, Plenary
Debate: The Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22
Of course, I'm eager to welcome any additional allocations in the supplementary budget, although I do share some of the concerns outlined by the previous speaker and the committee Chair, particularly in ensuring that we can demonstrate the value that those…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
And that prize of tens of thousands of additional jobs can happen without spending any additional funding, because it's funding that we're already spending on procurement, but it can be spent in a different way. So, I welcome the fact that this is being…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you very much, Llywydd. Minister, you will be aware that every 1 per cent of the value of public procurement that remains in Wales accounts for 2,000 new jobs, and that's why the Plaid Cymru manifesto wanted to see an increase, from the 52 per cent of…
, Plenary
Debate: The Local Government Settlement 2022-23
I also want to start my contribution to this debate in the proper place by thanking councils, councillors and the staff of local authorities for the exceptional work that they've done over past few years. They have proved, if it needed to be proved—I don't…
