Interim Environmental Governance Measures in Wales
Interim Environmental Governance Measures in Wales
During the Sixth Senedd, the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee (“the Committee”) will be carrying out work in relation to environmental principles and governance.
Interim
environmental governance measures
In setting its priorities for the Sixth Senedd, the Committee agreed to scrutinise the Welsh Government’s interim environmental governance measures by holding a one-off session with the Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales (“the Assessor”), following the publication of the Assessor’s annual report.
Scrutiny of
Interim environmental governance measures – 2022-2023
Report: The Committee published its report: Report on operation of the interim environmental protection measures 2022-23 (PDF 183KB), on 21 September 2023.
The Welsh Government responded (PDF 289KB) to the Committee’s report on 6 November 2023.
The Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales responded (PDF 134KB) on 30 October 2023.
Plenary debate: A
debate was held in plenary on 29 November 2023.
Evidence
gathering:
The Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales Annual Report 2022-2023 was published on 16 June 2023.
The Committee held a scrutiny session with the Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales at its meeting on 21 June 2023.
The Committee also considered evidence from a panel of representatives of the Office for Environmental Protection and Environmental Standards Scotland. More information on the evidence sessions can be found under the meetings tab at the top of the page.
Scrutiny of
Interim environmental governance measures – 2021-2022
Report: The Committee published its report: Report on operation of the interim environmental protection measures (PDF 163KB), on 28 September 2022.
The Welsh Government responded (PDF 212KB) to the Committee’s report on 14 November 2022.
The Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales responded (PDF 134KB) on 9 November 2022.
Plenary debate : A debate was held in plenary on 7 December 2022.
Evidence
gathering
The Annual Report 2021/2022 was published on 1 June 2022.
The Committee held a scrutiny session with the Assessor at its meeting on 30 June 2022.
The Committee also heard evidence from a panel of experts from the environmental sector to gather their views on the operation of the Interim Environmental Governance Measures in Wales on 30 June 2022.
Correspondence
On 1 July 2022, ahead of the First Minister’s planned legislative statement, the Committee wrote to the First Minister in relation to an environmental governance Bill (PDF 182KB). The First Minister responded on 18 July 2022.
On 21 April 2022 the Chair wrote (PDF 102KB) to the Minister for Climate Change regarding the Welsh Government’s work on biodiversity; environmental principles and governance, and the Welsh Government’s Natural Resources Policy. The Minister responded (PDF 347KB) on 25 May 2022.
Business type: Committee Inquiry
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
First published: 05/04/2022
Documents
- Letter from the First Minister to the Chair: Environmental Governance Bill - 18 July 2022 PDF 100 KB
- Letter from the Chair to the First Minister: Environmental Governance Bill - 1 July 2022 PDF 182 KB View as HTML (2) 37 KB
- Response from the Minister for Climate Change to the Chair's letter of 21 April - 25 May 2022 PDF 347 KB
- Letter from the Chair to Mark Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS) - 5 July 2023 PDF 78 KB
- Letter from the Chair to Dame Glenys Stacey, Chair and Natalie Prosser, Chief Executive Officer, Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) - 5 July 2023 PDF 77 KB
- Response from Mark Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, Environmental Standards Scotland (ESS) to the Chair - 7 July 2023 PDF 154 KB
- Response from Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) to the Chair - 28 July 2023 PDF 111 KB
- Correspondence from the Minister for Climate Change to the Chair - 8 June 2023 PDF 179 KB
- Response from the interim environmental protection assessor for Wales to the Chair in relation to the Committee's report on the operation of the interim environmental protection measures - 30 October PDF 134 KB
- Response from the Minister for Climate Change to the Chair in relation to the Committee's report on the operation of the interim environmental protection measures - 6 November PDF 289 KB