, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with local government representatives
And we've touched upon the delay to implementing EPR. What are your views on the panel in regard to the impacts of that delay? And then, also, if you could just discuss your understanding of the role of local authorities within EPR, and what is your…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with local government representatives
And is there an expectation in terms of when this is going to be published? What is your cognisance of that?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with local government representatives
Thank you very much, Chair. How are local authorities involved in work to update the collections blueprint, and what would you like to see in that updated blueprint to help local authorities achieve those recycling targets?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
In terms of—. No. You can write, if you wish, on that, but in terms of how we're tackling the amount of food that is deliberately being put in front of us. How are we working with fast food outlets in terms of the extraneous amount of rubbish that is being…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
Sorry. Sorry to interrupt you. I mean, you can write to the committee, I'm sure, with how you're working to develop green skills across the sector as your different organisations, but what work is ongoing with supermarkets? Because obviously we have to look…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
But can I interrupt you?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
So, my final question here is: how are communities, businesses and local authorities being supported to become more resource efficient, and what work is under way to develop green skills across the sectors involved?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
Thank you. To what extent is the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 impacting Wales's environmental ambitions, particularly waste reduction and recycling rates, through the single-use plastic ban and deposit-return scheme scope? And can the benefits—I've…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
Thank you. I don't know if there are any further comments, because we have already touched upon this. Is there anything extra on that? Are we all in agreement in terms of the impact of the delay?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
I'm not going to pursue that line, but I think, in terms of the supermarkets, in terms of their strategies to get us to buy more, it goes way further, doesn't it, than just a few pieces of fruit. But I'm going to move on. What impact will the delay in the DRS…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Inquiry on waste - evidence session with policy experts
Thank you very much. Very briefly, if I may, with regard to the comments around fast food and the alignment of UK policy potentially justifying lesser environmental ambitions, does the panel think that Wales has the levers to be able to tackle big…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Yes, it might be a very small proportion—. Sorry, I was on mute. It might be a very small proportion, but it's the importance of some of these initiatives, which is what I'm getting at. These are some fundamental thematics of the way forward for Welsh…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
So, can I just ask, for clarification on that particular point, there is that position and role, then, that somebody will be sat at the desk to say, 'Right, this is going to go out for direct procurement, and this is going to go through normal procedures in…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
I think, in regard to the follow-up to the resize and reshape work streams of the Welsh Government, we've touched upon what is the expectation around the transference of skills so that they are actually in-house. But, I think my caution around this is that a…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Okay. Thank you for that response. But, obviously, we're not going to get every single programme come to us as a committee, and I think it's more the concept of an ability to be able to fundamentally look at the business of Local Partnerships, because it…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Yes, but with respect, to interrupt you, Andrew, that was 2018. So, it's that ability to be able to—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
'So how do we scrutinise their work?' is my question to you, and Adam has already asked it, but I still don't have an answer. How can we as a committee scrutinise the money that is being spent, bearing in mind it's not just the immediate spend, it's the Welsh…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
I think it's been hugely interesting. I'm very concerned that I've not heard of this organisation before, that it has not come forward in any guise of being able to seek information or to ask questions of. And as I said earlier, in terms of it being very…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Right. Can you hear me now, because I think that I've resolved the issue?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Can I just say about the transparency point that I agree with Adam? I'd like to know how many directly awarded contracts have come forward in terms of the exemption from Teckal, if you can hear me.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Is that better? So, to be precise, the £2.3 million of expenditure incurred from the involvement with these projects—. Can you hear me, Chair?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Thank you very much—[Inaudible.] Fair enough, it's a very small amount of money that could be incurred, but you said yourselves—it's said in the document—in terms of the, as Adam has said—[Inaudible.]—considerable reward—[Inaudible.]
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Yes, but, as stated, I'll take it down and we'll discuss it later. It was just around the £700,000 range, but we can discuss that later, if that's preferred. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Thanks.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papers to note
Can I just ask a very simple question? Obviously, in terms of the reasons, being clearly outlined, there's no way that there could be a classification in terms of you not being able to complete these due to their end of the sausage machine not having…
