Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:59 pm on 8 November 2016.
The difficulty with that is that most of the mail does not originate in Wales. With carrier bags, it’s easy enough; the carrier bags are in the shop in Wales to begin with. It’s an issue that, if we expand it more widely, applies to waste. Most of the waste that comes in to Wales and is generated as waste isn’t actually from Wales to begin with. For me, the answer lies in a UK and European approach to this, because we know that, certainly within the UK, unsolicited mail is still a problem. It’s not as it was because, of course, e-mail is much easier now and, as I’m sure we all know in this Chamber, the scourge of telephone calls by organisations that are outside the telephone preference service. I would be very supportive of any legislation at a UK level that would strengthen the rights of people to avoid these calls in the future, with suitable penalties if needs be.