, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
No, no, you're right. Although they would probably decry the fact that they had to spend any income in year, as opposed to smoothing it out, maybe, over three to five years, which is another discussion, I'm sure, you're having with them, and another issue…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
For renewables, yes.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Thank you, Minister. Just for avoidance of doubt, Natural Resources Wales are actually returning receipts, aren't they? I think they returned nearly £10 million last year.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Thank you. Jenny.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Before bringing Jenny in, can I just make one point, or ask one question? You mentioned the baseline exercise and then identifying what add-ons are required. Of course, we know from evidence that Natural Resources Wales have given to another committee…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you. We'll move on now then to Huw.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
No, you're okay. You're okay—if you keep it brief, it's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Delyth, you wanted to come in on this as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
There we are. Coastal. Okay. Thank you for that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Thank you very much. Does Gian Marco wish to remind us what the acronym stands for? We're testing him now as well.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
There we are. Thank you very much. Okay, we'll move on to our next area, then, of questioning, which is flooding, and I'll invite Janet Finch-Saunders to kick us off.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
That's a very important point to make. Thank you, Minister. Carolyn, did you want to conclude on this?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
There we are. Okay. Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay. Jenny has raised her hand. I'll invite Jenny to come in and then we might need to move on then. If Carolyn is insistent, maybe briefly, but Jenny first.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Can I—? Yes, go on then, Steve.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
There we are. Okay, thank you. We're going to have to move on, I'm afraid, Jenny, so I'll invite now Carolyn to lead us through a series of questions on transport decarbonisation.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Okay, thank you, Janet. Jenny, you wanted to come in on this.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Welcome back to the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee. We are scrutinising the Government's draft budget, and the Minister for Climate Change, for 2022-23. We will continue with our questioning and move next to Janet Finch-Saunders.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
There we are. Thank you, Minister. We've covered a lot in our first half of our scrutiny, but such is the size of your department that we have to come back for another session. [Laughter.] So, we'll take a short break and we'll reconvene for 10:30. So, if…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Thank you. Last word on this to Carolyn.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
If I may come in here, there was a suggestion from a previous inquiry in our predecessor committee that the land transaction tax might be used to facilitate some of this, in that if you brought your house up to a certain standard before you sold it, then you…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Yes, okay. Thank you, Janet. Right, we'll move on, then, to decarbonisation of housing and I'll invite Jenny to ask on this.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Okay, thank you, Minister. Janet, I know you previously asked whether you could come in on marine, so we're on marine now; is there anything in addition that you'd like to ask?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
If you wish to, yes, that's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Thank you, Minister. I'll bring Huw in now, and then we will need to make progress then, because I know we're up against time. Huw.
