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1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change: Flooding in Coastal Communities ( 8 Feb 2023)

Julie James: Thank you, Janet. The Welsh Government is investing £293 million in reducing flood risk to coastal communities across Wales through our coastal risk management programme. This will reduce flood risk to over 15,000 properties, and includes, for example, more than £19 million of investment in Aberconwy. An interactive map showing our investment is published online.

QNR: Questions to the Minister for Climate Change ( 8 Feb 2023)

Julie James: The UK Government did not consult or discuss the content of EIP prior to its publication. I welcome an opportunity to discuss areas where we must work together on our mutual goals to protect habitats, ensure clean and plentiful water supplies, improve air quality and ensure sustainable land management.

10. The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (24 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Diolch, Llywydd. Just on the consultation point that the legislation and justice committee Chair raised, I'll just reiterate what I said: the amendments brought about by the draft regulations clearly reflect changes to immigration law, which are reserved matters. The changes are quite limited, leaving little or no impact on public services, as compared to present. Any consultation would have...

10. The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (24 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Diolch, Llywydd. We've made the draft Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 in order to amend the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) Regulations 2014, known as the 2014 regulations, so that victims and survivors of slavery and human trafficking granted temporary permission to stay in the UK can access housing or...

4. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Renewable Energy Targets (24 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Thank you very much, Joyce. It's a very good point. We've been working for quite some time now with a range of stakeholders—and I know you know this—to make sure that we do a whole range of things. First of all, we attract the right kind of investment, and there are enormous issues with that. We don't want greenwashing, for example, but we do want proper investment in renewables and in...

4. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Renewable Energy Targets (24 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Thank you, Mabon. Yes, we would like to have much more control over the national grid, absolutely, because of all of the issues we've discussed endlessly—the need to plan it out, the need for better investment, and so on. So, I think that's taken as read, really. The real issue with a number of projects around Wales—on land, onshore, on sea—has been grid connection, and the real...

4. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Renewable Energy Targets (24 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Thank you, Alun. I absolutely agree with the last point. The big issue there is to make sure that the community has the renewable energy it wants and needs, but also there’s a huge piece there about not just community benefits, but proper community ownership. So, we are very keen indeed to facilitate any company that’s building an onshore windfarm—I hope we can do this with floating...

4. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Renewable Energy Targets (24 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Diolch, Delyth. I think there's much to agree on there, and then I can do a bit of an explanation of where we are. So, just in terms of the grid itself, the national grid is one of the worst-named bits of it, really, because it's nothing of the sort; it's a series of different organisations that deploy different bits of the grid. It has been very reactive in the past. It has only responded to...

4. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Renewable Energy Targets (24 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Thank you, Janet. I hope your throat gets better soon; I have every sympathy. As you know, I've had a very similar problem myself, so many sympathies there. Just in terms of the Crown Estate, obviously, we are in favour of the devolution of the Crown Estate, and the benefits of that are just really obvious. First off, the revenue itself is worth having, just straight up. So, even if we didn't...

4. Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Renewable Energy Targets (24 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Today, I am publishing our consultation on revising Welsh Government's energy targets. Alongside this, I am also delighted to announce some important investment we are making to stimulate the renewables supply chain, driving economic growth alongside emissions reduction and energy security. Our current targets signalled Wales's high ambitions for renewable energy and...

9. Short Debate: Developing the hydrogen energy sector in Wales (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I very much welcome the opportunity to respond to this really interesting debate, and thank you, Janet, for bringing it forward. And everybody is absolutely right: the climate emergency demands that we use all the tools at our disposal to accelerate progress to a net-zero energy system. We are absolutely committed to moving our energy system away from fossil fuels and...

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Certainly. I don't think you should be as patronising as that to other Members of this Senedd.

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: As I was saying, the UK Government relies far too heavily on the RAB mechanism for funding these things, which adds costs to customer bills, rather than on general taxation. It is regressive and it places a disproportionate burden on those who can least bear it, which in itself slows progress towards the energy system we need. A different model of investment is desperately required. But...

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Of course.

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: The difference there, of course, is that that's a hypothetical concern, and the actual concern was that the UK Government would not support it. We have recently done an end-to-end review of marine licensing in Wales, because we want to have the most effective and efficient system. Only yesterday I discussed it with NRW's marine licensing team. So, we are absolutely on that. But we need both...

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: You sat opposite me and you agreed with me that the Swansea bay lagoon should be built. Your own Conservative MP who looked at the report agreed that it should be built—Charles Hendry. Do you remember that? And the Government did what? It said 'no'. It said it wasn't to be built, even though it was absolutely called a 'no-brainer'. 

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Certainly.

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Because they could have had the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth if they'd been a bit faster is the easiest answer to that. [Interruption.] Your motion today makes no mention—no mention at all—of the UK Government's responsibilities. It makes no mention at all of the UK Government's responsibilities. What I would say to you is this: you believe that we should be part of a union in...

6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Offshore renewable energy (18 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm very glad to have the opportunity to respond to this motion today. I absolutely welcome the broad consensus that marine energy is a pillar of the economy in Wales and will become ever more so in the coming decades, and I very much associate myself with many of the comments made by Members in this debate. The Welsh Government supports the motion. The Welsh...

11. Legislative Consent Motion on the Shark Fins Bill (17 Jan 2023)

Julie James: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I want to thank Members for their contributions today. Just to address a couple of the very specific points—and I thank the committe, Huw, for its rapid work on this, as always—I'm afraid I do not accept the recommendation or conclusion that clause 3 of the Bill would amount to a relevant provision for the purposes of Standing Order 29. Aside from clause 3(5),...


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