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Transcript: Transcript for 24/10/2018 - Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee - Fifth Senedd

Items
Expected timing No. Item

1.

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Andrew R T Davies and Dai Lloyd, for whom Darren Millar and Llyr Gruffydd substituted.

(09.00 - 09.50)

2.

The Future of Land Management in Wales: assessing an outcomes-based approach to payment for public goods: evidence session one

Professor Mike Christie, Professor of Environmental and Ecological Economics in the School of Management and Business - Aberystwyth University

Dr Neal Hockley, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics & Policy, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering - Bangor University

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The Committee took oral evidence from Professor Mike Christie and

Dr Neal Hockley to inform its inquiry.

09.50 - 10.50)

3.

The Future of Land Management in Wales: assessing an outcomes-based approach to payment for public goods: evidence session two

Arfon Williams, Land Use Manager - RSPB Cymru

Rachel Sharp, Chief Executive Officer - Wildlife Trusts Wales

Dr Nick Fenwick, Head of Policy - Farmers’ Union of Wales

Dylan Morgan, Head of Policy - National Farmers’ Union Cymru

Minutes:

The Committee took oral evidence from Arfon Williams, Rachel Sharp, Dr Nick Fenwick and Dylan Morgan to inform its inquiry.

(11.00 - 11.50)

4.

The Future of Land Management in Wales: assessing an outcomes-based approach to payment for public goods: evidence session three

Dr Patrick McGurn, AranLIFE

Jennifer Manning, Dartmoor Farming Futures Project

Tracy May, Dartmoor Farming Futures Project

Minutes:

The Committee took oral evdience from Dr Patrick McGurn, Jennifer Manning and Tracy May to inform its inquiry.

5.

Paper(s) to note

Minutes:

The Committee noted the papers under item 5.

5.1

Correspondence from the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs to the Chair of Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee - Agriculture Bill

Supporting documents:

5.2

Paper from Coed Cadw - the Woodland Trust: Brexit and our Land

Supporting documents:

6.

Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for items seven and eight

Minutes:

The Committee resolved to exclude the public from the meeting for items 7 and 8.

(11.50 - 11.55)

7.

The Future of Land Management in Wales: assessing an outcomes-based approach to payment for public goods: consideration of oral evidence received under items two, three and four

Minutes:

The Committee considered the oral evdience received under items 2, 3 and 4.

(11.55 - 12.00)

8.

Discussion of forward work programme

Minutes:

The Committee agreed, in principle, to undertake a visit to the Institute of Biological and Environmental Rural Sciences as part of the Senedd@Aberystwyth event on 6 December.