Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 14 December 2016.
Well, I need to say to the Cabinet Secretary that she has an opportunity here to look at these proposals once again given that we are now leaving the European Union. I appreciate that we need to maintain the quality of our natural environment and, for that reason, it is worrying, incidentally, that a regulatory impact assessment hasn’t been provided alongside the consultation document, because surely a regulatory impact assessment is crucial to demonstrate how these proposals will result in an improvement to our water quality and to our natural environment. Can you, therefore, explain to us why a regulatory impact assessment has not been issued alongside the Welsh Government’s proposals?