Results 301–320 of 2000 for speaker:Lee Waters

4. Statement by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change: COP26 (16 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Diolch, Llywydd. Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that the latest data signals a code red for humanity. This year, Canada registered its highest ever temperature, shattering the previous record by around 5 full degrees. It rained rather than snowed for the first time at the peak of the Greenland ice sheet. Closer to...

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: The Transport System In South Wales West (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Thank you. I agree with that analysis. I absolutely share her desire to see a south-west Wales metro. I think the truth of it is that the Swansea bay metro, as we call it in shorthand, has been the least developed of the three metro schemes, and that's partly because the Swansea bay city deal has not had a focus on transport in the way that the other city deals, city regions, have had. Some...

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: The Transport System In South Wales West (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Yes, the maps we published last month illustrate the scale of our ambitions, including new stations, routes and services. Travellers will see improvements to their network from next year through new trains, and we're working hard with local authorities to deliver new public transport services and active travel routes across the south-west. 

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Carbon Offsetting (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: While I fully recognise the concerns, I think it's really important that we tackle this problem in a responsible way, and that we work together to find solutions. I do not support greenwashing by companies using tree planting as a way to justify their polluting methods. Now, we do have a requirement, if we are going to hit net zero by 2050—and I know he and his party think we should be...

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Carbon Offsetting (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Yes. Any new woodland creation in Wales must comply with environmental impact assessment regulations. The woodland carbon code is the voluntary offsetting standard for UK woodland creation and it provides assurance about the carbon savings of sustainably managed woodlands. Companies, of course, should always prioritise the reduction of carbon emissions before offsetting.

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Public Transport (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Well, I join the Senedd today from COP26 in Glasgow, where today is transport day, and we have signed a declaration with a number of leading countries to work towards all sales of new cars and vans being zero emissions globally by 2040 and no later than 2035 in leading markets, which will be an important contribution to achieving net zero. I welcome what Peter Fox said about the support for a...

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Public Transport (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Yes. Naturally, we're in contact with both Stagecoach and the trade unions about this, and I'm very concerned that the dispute hasn't yet been brought to a successful resolution. I would certainly urge that to happen as soon as possible, because people are now beginning to suffer as services are not there for them when they need them. I did meet Unite yesterday, and I was very concerned by...

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Public Transport (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Yes. The future of public transport in South Wales East is promising. Work is well under way on transforming the core Valleys lines, taking forward the recommendations of Lord Burns around Newport, and we are starting to see the new trains being delivered that will run across the region.

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Well, with respect, I do answer the Member's questions; she just doesn't like the answers. I don't think that subsidising and encouraging domestic air travel is in keeping with the challenge of climate change that we have and that the Prime Minister is trying to claim great international leadership on; I think it is a contradiction. The airport is a commercially run body, and its management...

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Let's be very clear that the powers over buses—the regulation of them—remain at the UK level. So, the fact that we've been in power in Wales is irrelevant, because we don't have the power to change the way the market is regulated. We think that, through franchising, we're able to address some of that, but this is a direct result of UK Government policy in the 1980s that's been kept in...

1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: I've recently met both with First and with the trade unions to discuss the range of pressures that the bus industry is facing at the moment. The specific issue that Natasha Asghar raises, I'm afraid, is a direct consequence of the privatisation of the bus industry back in the mid 1980s by the Conservative Government, and we're still living with the consequences. The way that the companies are...

QNR: Questions to the Deputy Minister for Climate Change (10 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Through the Wales transport strategy, 'Y Llwybr Newydd', we are committed to transforming our transport system in rural areas by offering access to transport services where previously there was none and opening up new opportunities for more people.

7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: A green recovery ( 3 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Janet Finch-Saunders said that we needed to show action on funding the green agenda, skills, and decarbonising buses, but, acting Presiding Officer, last week in a budget when not once was the term 'climate change' mentioned, we saw our capital budget cut. At the end of this Senedd term, it'll be 11 per cent lower than it is today; £3 billion less for the Welsh economy than if the...

7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: A green recovery ( 3 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Diolch yn fawr iawn, acting Presiding Officer. Well, I was quite moved by the words of James Evans there. At the end he told us to practice what we preach. He reminded us that we have a moral obligation to do what we can. Janet Finch-Saunders began the debate by saying that we need to confront the defining issue of our time. And tonight, I'd like to award the Conservatives with the brass neck...

7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: A green recovery ( 3 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Formally.

4. Topical Questions: The Llanbedr Bypass ( 3 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Llywydd, Natasha Asghar says that she understands the climate is a concern of mine. I thought it was a concern of hers too, because I've been hearing speeches she's been making week after week telling me how we're not being bold enough and fast enough, and certainly Janet Finch-Saunders as well. I heard Janet Finch-Saunders say at the demonstration with the ice sculpture before heading off to...

4. Topical Questions: The Llanbedr Bypass ( 3 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: I can see that the benefit of time is not making Mabon ap Gwynfor any more amenable to the arguments put forward by the independent panel. I understand his disappointment, because there is often strong local attachment to these schemes. I heard people saying yesterday that this is a scheme that's been an ambition locally for 70 years. We often see this happening where local authorities, when...

4. Topical Questions: The Llanbedr Bypass ( 3 Nov 2021)

Lee Waters: Apologies. I've already provided, Llywydd, a written statement to Members with the decision on the Llanbedr access road. The chair's report was included and set out the recommendations, which I've accepted, and the Welsh Government will not support any further work on the current Llanbedr access road scheme.

5. Topical Questions: The Welsh Government’s Roads Review (20 Oct 2021)

Lee Waters: I don't think there's anything to add. I thank Joyce Watson for her comments and I agree with her summary.

5. Topical Questions: The Welsh Government’s Roads Review (20 Oct 2021)

Lee Waters: I'm very happy to clarify that when we announced the roads review, we made a distinction between roads that were within scope and those that were outside of scope. Those that were outside of scope were ones where contracts had been let. The phrase I used was that there were 'diggers in the ground'. Now, I think Mr Kurtz has interpreted 'diggers in the ground' rather literally and made a...


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