, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Yes, very useful. Thank you, Gian Marco. Delyth, I know, had previously indicated she wants to come in, and I'll bring Huw in after as well. So, Delyth first.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
We have, yes, in the afternoon session.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Yes, absolutely. Thank you for that point. Okay. Janet, you've been very patient. Where are you? There you are. I couldn't see you then.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Briefly from John Howells then, and then we'll come on to Janet and her questions.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Yes. The last point from Jenny on this, because I know Janet wants to come in on renewables.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Of course. John.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Okay, thank you. Jenny.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Okay. Delyth.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
There we are.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
No, and that does make sense, I'm sure. Yes, thank you for that, Dean. Okay, thank you. We'll move on now, then. Delyth.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
That's fine, Dean. Yes, we can hear you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Dean.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Excellent. Okay, well we look forward to hearing back from that.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
That's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
In the meantime, I think Dean Medcraft would like to come in.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
There we are. Okay. Thank you. Carolyn, you want to come in on this.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Okay, and the monitoring system that you mentioned earlier will capture across Government everything that needs to be recorded, I'm sure. Many of us were at the Conference of the Parties 26; could you tell us a little bit about how, maybe, that has influenced…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
And those areas where you have competence, of course, those are disaggregated across different departments within the Welsh Government as well. So, could you tell us a bit about how you're going to embed this process across all portfolios and not just within…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
Okay, yes. Thank you for that. Clearly there are some sectors that maybe haven't seen the reduction in emissions that we would have wished to see of late, and I'm thinking of industry and business and agriculture particularly. Can you tell us a bit about how…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 1
I think we're ready to move on to our second item, which is scrutiny of the Welsh Government's draft budget for 2022-23. The budget was laid a little before Christmas and, this morning, for the next couple of hours, we'll be taking evidence from the Minister…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Of course. Thank you very much for that. You will be aware that we as a committee have previously decided that if I do lose connection, then Delyth Jewell will step into the breach and take the chair whilst I seek to reconnect. There we are.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Okay. Thank you for that. I think you've inadvertently switched your video off in trying to probably unmute yourself. There we are, we can see you now. Carolyn.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Jenny, sorry, did you want to come in?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
A very good morning to you all and welcome to the Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee at the Senedd. This is our first meeting after the Christmas recess. So, happy new year to you all. Welcome to Members and we have received apologies…
, Plenary
Debate on a Statement: The Draft Budget 2022-23
Thank you very much, Dirprwy Lywydd, and thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this debate on the statement on the Welsh draft budget. The Minister has described this budget—and we’ve just heard the Conservative spokesperson repeating that—as a…
